Birthday present Leon

Just to let every one know there are 2 blogs today this is the second one.  The first one is about the walk, this one is about my birthday present from my family.   I had a terrible migraine last night.    I only slept a little.  I kept waking up from my head hurting so much.   The pillow was too hard or my head was just sore from the pain.   I kept tossing and turning.   I felt sorry for any one in my room I felt like I was making way too much noise.   Then by the time I left it was down to a dull roar. And my ankle was hurting walking today but the swelling was down.   Now it feels like it's bruised.  It even has a bit of color to it like a bruise.

So this what you all gave me. And I have to say it is nice here.   I didn't get the suite like Martin Sheen in the movie.   That was a little bit more than I was willing to spend for a night, even if was your money. Besides with what's left I might get a room on the square in Santiago.   So this is what the place looks like walking up to it.   The Camino goes right by it. The first part of the building is a church, then there is a museum, then the hotel.

This is the entrance to the hotel.

 What a job they did restoring this place.

And here I am at the door looking happy

Here are some pictures of the room. Oh ya you can get a regular room here for about 30E less. 

They only had 2 single beds but I was ok with that.

It is a great room

This is the view from the balcony

 

nice eh

And the key is even neat, an old church key.    That brass emblem attached weighs like a half pound

They have a stair case to the first two floors and they have all these old paintings on the wall of old Kings and Queens.

And lots of old rugs.   Some are beautiful

This is the court yard out side

They have all these statues around it

Another view

And a look towards the center, and the second floor

Another one that lost her head

There are so many of these old frieze's, sculptures, and other various art forms, that I took over 300 pictures and didn't even scratch the surface

Another rug

A hand carved ceiling in wood

They charged me 7E for this coffee it was good but not that good.  They threw the cake in for free.

Another picture from out side.    I was waiting for some one to take the next picture and there was a group of school kids doing a tour of this place.

 the church

And here is the picture I was waiting for. Me with a pilgrim

These next few are the museum

Lots of this stuff is from the 12th to the 18th century

This guy sure was a scary dude

I like the way this one looked

The ceiling in the museum

Then I went to the church but they were starting mass

So I went into the coffins room

One of these coffins was from 978

Great detail for a coffin from the 15 hundreds

These faces are across the front of the building

You can see the faces on the front of the hotel

This is over the entrance to the hotel.  The detail is amazing

And this is the second floor of that outside court yard

Just another view of the same

And me taking the elevator.  No stairs for me.   

You could spend hours and hours wandering around here there is so much to see.   It is amazing what they have done with this place.

I was just talking to another Pilgrim that said it's not going to rain tomorrow so I might have to come up with another reason  to stay one more day.

My ankle is killing me.   Brenda tells me that is the best reason to take another day off and stay here a second night.