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Article: Travel: A Mediterranean sea saga; Cruise ships have become fashionable with the younger generation. But Perrott Phillips joins the 'Silver Spenders' aboard the Saga Pearl to enjoy some old school voyaging.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- October 18, 2003
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Byline: Perrott Phillips
The immense, silver-plated incense burner -four feet high and weighing more than 13 stone -hurtled towards me like a bomb.
Suspended from 75ft of steel cable, it had taken eight burly, red-robed priests to haul the legendary botafumiero censer to the roof of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
Now it swung low across the nave in a great arc, billowing smoke, a weapon of mass devotion testing the nerve of the congregation below as it skimmed heads on its way to the roof.
For more than 1,000 years, Santiago, in ...