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Regarding your painting paper, I would try a bookstore called "Follas Novas" located here. They may not have it, but I think they would know were to send you. Plan B would be to ask at the tourist office (100 meters up from the pilgrims office).
in case anyone else is looking for art supplies (you never know-and who wants to carry them around!) i got some watercolour paper in a papeleria on the same street as the bookstore mentioned above however i later discovered a papeleria (am i spelling that right?) on a corner very near the cathedral with plenty of art supplies. on the corner of Rua Do Castro directly up the hill behind the cathedral form the pilgrims office.
I just completed the Camino Fracis. I got to the pilgrim office in time to get my compesela, and had a very positive experience there. I dedicated my camino to a close cousin who recently passed...
It's been 5 years since being in Santiago and my perceptions are stuck in a decade ago. But these days it's so much easier to find good vegetarian and vegan food here.
Yesterday I had a wonderful...
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