Last year a memorial «to all those who lost their lives
in Antarctica
in the pursuit of science» was dedicated
in the
crypt of St Paul's
Cathedral, London, and a monumental sculpture was installed
in the grounds...
'' «We are going to win a Nobel Prize,» I breathed.As they stay up all night to read the 9th - century Codex, it spills answers to all the burning questions of the thinking Camino pilgrim, including: Is there any chance at all that a Middle Eastern Jew's bones are
in a
crypt in Santiago de Compostela, Spain?Why,
in the
cathedrals along the Camino, are there so many portraits of St. James riding his horse over people?Did the legend of James
in Spain — and the nation of Spain, sort of — really begin with a scribal error
in an old manuscript — the modern equivalent of a typo?We're spirited to early 800s northwestern Spain, where King Alfonso II is
in a pickle.
Down the end is the South African National Gallery (a good collection of essential South African artists) and St George's
Cathedral (there is a
crypt built
in 1898, which is now a jazz club, similar to that of St Martin's
in the Field
in London).