NH Palacio de Vigo

... static caravans pitched up for the winter) all for the princely sum of Euro 8 per night! The surf in Ancora looked rather too frothy (pollution or a good head??!) for our liking and so we headed a few km down the road on the 6 Nov to Agucadoura, yet another deserted beach, where both of us donned our wetsuits, dived in with our boards and were unceremoniously dumped back on ...

Vigo was our last port of call on our cruise and I had given this place little thought and done no research, so it came as quite a pleasant surprise. Its a big place and quite spectacular when viewed from the height of the ship.. We didn't get chance to look ...

Today I´m headed for Vigo on the Northwest coast. Madrid has been good although tiring. It rained yesterday so I spent the afternoon at the Prado Museum. After that I walked forever, took a few pictures and ate some ice cream. If you´re ever in Madrid I recomend the Museo del Jamon, ham and cheese sandwich + beer = 2euros.

... work shifts of between 12 and 16 hours per day. On our boat, since the responsibilities of each position vary considerably from one another, most of the crew are also trained in other areas. So, when guests are aboard and the Steward/ess’ are crazy busy, the deck hands can help in many of the areas to lighten their load, and when there are few guests aboard, but we just finished a crossing, then the Stewies will help out the deck crew ...

Today our port of call was Vigo, Spain. It is in the Galicia region (northwest) and it is quite beautiful. It rains there a lot, but we had a beautiful sunny day. We had hired a guide to show us the area. The highlight of the day for me was going to a castle. It was amazing… both the building and the ...

... marina. Anchored here is an old friend - another replica of the Pinta, one of the three ships that went with Columbus. Having seen where they began their journey, at Palos de la Frontera, we have now seen where one of the ships made landfall on the return voyage. Imagine the scene on the dockside - "Hi, honey, I'm home! We've discovered America, and I've brought you back some exotic vegetables, a parrot and a couple of ...

... south with Snow! The weather held out so we found a campsite to freshen up. So mostly this week we have been heading west trying to escape the rain which seems to follow us and visiting lots of towns along the way which all have there own very distinct identity. The next town, Vincent we visited was fiercely pro Basque. loads of ETA protest graffiti and banners, it was a nice town though and we luckily stumbled upon a spring parade. Then on to Burgos which seems ...

Today we headed south.  When planning this trip I got Cadogan's guide to Northern Spain and it had 5 areas in it that shouldn't be missed in Galicia.  One of them was Tui (pronounced 2-ie) this town is on the river Mino which is the border between Spain and Portugal.  The bridge that connects the 2 countries was designed by Gustave Eiffel.  Valenca, the city in ...

... and why you remember certain streets. Back when I lived in Vigo I used to look at all the ladies when I walked to and back from school and in my head would award one of them ¨Best looking female of the day¨. It actually wasn´t hard to give out such an award because pretty much all Spanish ladies take good care of themselves. I also remembered all the stores I used to go to. Since in Vigo I had nothing to do ...

... I snuck a peak so see if the lady was still there... nope... I had fallen asleep for who knows how long. I hadn't even felt the train stop and start again. So I my backpack and set myself up again and went back to sleep until 7.10am as I wanted a bit of time to go to the bathroom before I was in Vigo (Spain)(7.30am). I arrived and went straight to the information counter to find out how to get to Porto (in ...