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<P>In a simple phrase, difficult to find. There is a vegetarian restaurant in Santiago, and I saw another one in Burgos, but most meals eaten in restaurants in Spain include meat or fish, often as a part of every course. Green salads, for example, almost always come topped with tuna, and milk based desserts are the norm. My niece, a rigorous vegan, had a perfectly terrible time in Spain and ended eating mostly bread and fruits as almost everything else in restaurants, including vegetables, has bits of ham, broth, milk or other animal products in it. If you are an ovo-lacto vegetarian there is less of a problem, and pilgrims willing to eat fish have little problem as most menus include a fish or shellfish option. At home we are ovo-lacto vegetarians, but in Spain we simply go with the flow and eat what is on offer so long as it does not include red meat.</P>
<P>If you are willing to cook for yourself, and most albergues have at least some cooking facilities, you can purchase vegetarian ingredients at markets and in shops. But if you want a vegetarian menu, you had best avoid the vast majority of menu peregrino options.</P>
<P>E. O. Pederson</P></DIV>
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