Our journey to Santiago de Compostela


We made several trips and tours during our stay in Vigo, but most where together with the teachers and where organized by them. But in our free time our exchange students wanted to show us another famous city near Vigo, so we planned a trip to Santiago. 

We went there by train, which was very different from travelling by train in Germany. First difference is, that you have to put your baggage in a control which is like the ones at the airport and the second is, that they only have trains to travel to distances that are farther to get. Here in Germany we have the “S-Bahn”, which connects even short distances. 

When we arrived in Santiago, we travelled through the city by foot and saw a lots of beautiful things, like the cathedral which is the end of the way of St. James. The cathedral was built in 1075 over the rest of an older church. Together with the historic city center is the cathedral a World Heritage Site since 1985. Both, the historic city center and the cathedral are very beautiful.

It was a very beautiful day when we visited the city, it was very sunny in the little alleys. We visited many different little shops and a thing that we saw very often was jewelry with scallops, which is typical for the city.  Our exchange students wanted to show us a typical way of how food is served in Spain, so we went to a restaurant. We all ordered little portions of different food and shared it between us. It was a good way to try new dishes and it was the first time Sofie and me ate calamari, “Pulpo” in Spanish. 

The whole day was very funny, we saw many different things and tried some new ones. We are very glad that we had enough free time to do such a nice trip to a different city, just together with our exchange students. 

From Lisa S. and Sofie R.

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