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Subject: Re: [OM] Spain's version of Land's End
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 08:10:37 +0100
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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