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Valenca
Im in Portugal at last. Drove across what looked like a bridge that had been bombed recently and was now slowly being restored. This was the border crossing from Spain into Portugal. The first stop across the border was Valenca, a large fortified town atop of a ...
Here Vigo, here Vigo!
... then go off with Neil & Valerie to find a taxi to take us to Baiona, a little seaside fishing village about 12 miles away. It seems there is a set price €35 for the round trip and €17 for each hour waiting. Our driver is a lovely young boy but has no English so we have a lot of pointing and guessing as we go along!
We ask him to drop us at the Parador which is on the sea front occupying an old ...
Yellow paint and oysters
... we supposed were from which they fish out the oysters, famous in this area. The whole area is flanked by three islands, rich in wildlife and with one or two nice looking beaches.
Having marched up to the top of the hill, we then marched back down again, via one or two buildings which are, literally, falling apart. There is a slight feeling of faded glory about many of the buildings in Vigo, which must have been beautiful in their day.
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Smoke and mirrors
... heap of clothes on the chair in the bedroom... all of those important last minute jobs vie with the main task of packing, and usually win. Today was no different.
Having carefully gone through the purse and discarded everything but the Lloyds, AA and Costa cards, Nick, oblivious to this, does the same and says... "Nectar, Nero and Alfriston Village Stores" (where we recently bought some amazing cheese...) so it looks as if between us we will have ...
A nice small city by the sea
... states" through this door came the pilgrims from Portugal on their way to Santiago". I'd met a few pilgrims walking the Portuguese way from Lisbon , O Porto and from Tui, which is at the border.
Tomorrow I'll leave Santiago back to Madrid and then on Friday home.
My posting have been hurried and very sloppy, full of spelling errors, I do apologize for that. As the days go by I'll try to add to the postings, both my thoughts and ...