Well, here I am in Pontevedra, in the Province of Galacia in Spain. This may be my only chance to blog in while in Spain as the DSL we were going to install at my aunt’s place may not get installed. I am taking tons of photos and will try to log the best I can while on the road, then I will catch up big-time when I get Internet access. Have taken maybe more than 300 photos so far, thought that’s not too hard with a digital camera. The big challenge there is with keeping charged batteries and running out of space on the flash memory cards.

My first day was mostly travel–after landing in Madrid late at night and getting up early the next day, my father and I met with my sister, her husband and two kids and we all piled into a minivan for an 8-hour trip to my ancestral homeland, Pontevedra. Here, we met up with several cousins and their families and got great tours and eating throughout the area. Highlights included the local landmarks as well at the building which housed my grandfather’s academy school, which he ran before being exiled (given the choice of leaving or being killled, that is) by Franco’s people.

Remind me to tell you the story of how Christopher Columbus was really born here in Galicia.

Today we went up to Santiago and saw the cathedral there, a thousand years old and counting, reportedly the resting place of Saint James. We got some great photos. Tomorrow it’s back to Madrid and for some more relaxed sightseeing.

So far, it been great… lots of logs to put in. Sometime soon….