Today we travelled from Vigo to A Coruna in the North having decided that it was going to be just too hot to go South. There was another little niggle in that Rob hasn't done enough work on his Portuguese and it would be really annoying not to be able to communicate. So....we've stayed in Spain.
Last night we went into Vigo again and had some small tapas but just wandered about and came across a brilliant wind band made up of adults and youngsters. They played really well in front of an enthusiastic audience but, apart from the German couple in front of us, I think we were the only foreigners watching! There doesn't seem to be many non-Spanish people here even though it is gradually becoming our favourite place.
This sunset at about 10pm from our bedroom window near the harbour is part of it all.
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| Sunset from bedroom window |
Great sunset and perfect temperature in the evening for wandering and dipping into tapas bars for food etc.
We walked back and Debbie wanted just a last glass of wine. Rob had noticed a bar close to our hotel. Unfortunately we shared our glass with the vagrants of Vigo so had it really quickly, paid and almost ran home!
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| The Las Delicias Wind Band |
Here's a pic of the wind band and although small made a great sound - well in tune and pretty nimble with fingers too. All the drummers didn't have music and played by ear....er.... what a surprise!
A bit later as we were wandering we came across this folk groups with dancers. They were really good and neat and tidy in their performance. We really liked there pipers so Rob is going to look on Ebay for some Galician Pipes and perhaps will start a pipers band at school......here they are.
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| Out and about from Vigo to A Coruna |
We had a lovely ride today - only 145 miles - but along the smoothest roads you're ever likely to find. Long evenly swooping bends perfect for riding at about 50mph and easy because there're so few other road users. Those that do pop along to share the road just slide by and are gone leaving the whole open road to us for another 20 - 30 minutes!
We stopped in absolute silence on the top of the world for this pic.
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| Octopus cooking |
At lunchtime we stopped at the side of the road for a quick meal - octopus, 20 little salty green peppers and a salad. Delicious.
This evening we went, by bus, in to A Coruna and saw octopus being cooked in these copper kettles - looked a bit harsh for the poor old octopus.
Still having a great time and we're here for another 2 nights. The Tall Ships race is due to arrive here on Saturday - we're due to leave then but will try to pop down to the harbour in the morning to have a look.
In the centre of town this afternoon they were setting up a HUGE sound system for a rock concert - horrible sound and really dreadful guitarist was trying out how loud he could play. We decided that we were well-off well out of town and a bus journey away. We have a video but is just too awful to post!
More tomorrow!
