Day 6 ending in Santo Domingo

Short day today, but pleasant after getting a regular night’s sleep.

At the top of a steepish hill, a guy was selling grocery store brand sodas for donations. Kind of a hustle, but I respect that.

I’ll say that the taste was exactly identical to the diet Shasta sodas that mom used to carry around in the trunk of the car to save money on drinks. It really took me back, and was almost like having her there with me.

The cathedral here is really spectacular. It was renovated repeatedly,  recently, and well.

Saint Dominic was a pretty important dude to the pilgrims passing through 1000 years ago. He built a hospital for them out of magical holly wood, and made dead chickens come back to life to prove a point.

There’s even live chickens in the cathedral. The cage is rather magnificent of course.

Really neat mosaics in the crypt
It’s quite a bit more impressive in person
The holy chicken coop
My hostel has it’s own coop lol
Ancient sarcophagus….nah, flowerpot
One of the local holly oaks

Total miles 15.3

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