Thanks, Nathan
We’d like to visit that region, go to church in Santiago and see Finisterre,
but travel abroad looks a tad tricky for the foreseeable future, so it’s good
to enjoy it vicariously :-)
It looked a bit strange, though, to see a piper in jeans and polo shirt :-)
Chris
C M I Barker | Gamlingay
> On 10 Aug 2020, at 11:16, olympus-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Despite the coronavirus and the difficulty of international travel, we
> decided that we needed a bit of a real vacation, but within Spain. So we have
> booked a few days at a spa and golf resort in Spain?s northwestern region
> Galicia, from today (Monday) until Thursday, which happens to be our wedding
> anniversary. We started by driving to Santiago de Compostela on Friday, an
> easy 1040 km drive from Alicante on nice motorways with light traffic. We
> have been walking around the city, but yesterday we also drive the 85 km to
> Spain?s version of Land?s End, Finisterre (or Fisterra in the local language
> gallego) to have a look at the famous Cape Finisterre.
>
> As we approached the coast, we passed through the town of Sardi?eira; the fog
> was rollling in from the Atlantic. The houses look very different from our
> part of Spain?here, the architecture reminded us more of Switzerland and
> southern Germany than of our Mediterranean coast:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-3MmLDQs/A
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-3MmLDQs/A>
>
> The lighthouse at Cape Finisterre. As is evident, many other people had the
> same idea as us. There were no foreign tourists, just people from the
> surrounding region and some, like us, from other parts of Spain. The building
> next to the lighthouse is now a small hotel and restaurant, where we had a
> good lunch:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-dX5zBcS/A
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-dX5zBcS/A>
>
> Galicia considers itself one of the Celtic nations, and bagpipers can be seen
> in Santiago, as well as here in Finisterre:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-7Nspsrr/A
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-7Nspsrr/A>
>
> The view of the Atlantic coast from the cape. Today we had extremely benign
> weather; in more normal times, this is a severe place, with lots of
> shipwrecks at the bottom of the Atlantic:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-chpjPhg/A
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-chpjPhg/A>
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