Post by Charlie and Wynette:
After we finally got to our hotel in Santiago yesterday, we rested and cooled down for an hour and then headed for lunch, Spanish lunch time, around 3:30, at a Portuguese (!) restaurant that was near our hotel.
We had seen and wished “buen Caminos” with a group of five young women earlier in the day when were still on the Camino. We had made up a story about them after they passed us. We saw the same group at the restaurant. It turns out we had it all wrong. It seems they were not mean girls who were excluding the fifth from their group but the fifth one was a little older and some kind of den mother. (Well, that’s our current story.) Enough said.
The lunch was really good, again. The menu had tabouli as a first course option (delicious!) and also a vegan option for second course: quinoa burger. It was ok, but would have been better if they had had mayonnaise. We requested it but all they had was ketchup.
