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I walked the Camino from the camping to the cathedral to visit the pilgrims service that starts at noon. I wanted to enter the catedral through the main entrance but that was closed for restauration works. Under the staircase is also en entrance, but only for the museum. Then I asked a souvenir seller and he explained, I had to use the south side entrance. I entered the cathedral just in time and found a place on the opposite part. There were a lit of people / pilgrims in. The service was in Spanish and partly in Italian because there was a large pilgrims group from Italy. At the the end of the service red dressed persons came to the altar. They were the swingers of the scent bowl that is attached to a long rope in the top of the cathedral. After the fee in the bowl burnt, the red persons started to swing the bowl at high speed through the whole church and it spread the scent smoke. This probably is unique in the world.
After the service I looked around on the cathedral, but did not join the long que, to touch the St James statue on the high altar.
Further I did some sightseeing and went to the Alameda park. From there is a nice view to the cathedral if the south tower would not be scaffolded.
On the place on front of the cathedral I had seen some Dutch people I knew from the Camino and I saw them again on the camping. Also the Belgian truck driver arrived today.
In the late afternoon I went to the chamber of the low lands, that is near the pilgrims office and is run by the Nederlandse genootschap van St Jacob. I had a chat with the people there, and just a coincidence they had lived in de Bilt, the village were I grew up.
Paul
I walked the Camino from the camping to the cathedral to visit the pilgrims service that starts at noon. I wanted to enter the catedral through the main entrance but that was closed for restauration works. Under the staircase is also en entrance, but only for the museum. Then I asked a souvenir seller and he explained, I had to use the south side entrance. I entered the cathedral just in time and found a place on the opposite part. There were a lit of people / pilgrims in. The service was in Spanish and partly in Italian because there was a large pilgrims group from Italy. At the the end of the service red dressed persons came to the altar. They were the swingers of the scent bowl that is attached to a long rope in the top of the cathedral. After the fee in the bowl burnt, the red persons started to swing the bowl at high speed through the whole church and it spread the scent smoke. This probably is unique in the world.
After the service I looked around on the cathedral, but did not join the long que, to touch the St James statue on the high altar.
Further I did some sightseeing and went to the Alameda park. From there is a nice view to the cathedral if the south tower would not be scaffolded.
On the place on front of the cathedral I had seen some Dutch people I knew from the Camino and I saw them again on the camping. Also the Belgian truck driver arrived today.
In the late afternoon I went to the chamber of the low lands, that is near the pilgrims office and is run by the Nederlandse genootschap van St Jacob. I had a chat with the people there, and just a coincidence they had lived in de Bilt, the village were I grew up.
Paul
