[Leica] IMG: Spain's version of Land's End

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

That's a bit of a change for you, Nathan. Finisterre is a name we all 
used to hear over here on the shipping forecast, and looks good, but I 
hope you didn't have to put up with those bagpipes for too long. They're 
awful things.

I prefer the uilleann pipes myself as they're far less strident. Here's 
someone I used to know playing them 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwxga8udIio

Douglas
BTW what was that sleek fancy car in the hotel car park?

On 10/08/2020 07:02, Nathan Wajsman 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>
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> 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>
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> 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>
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> 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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> More to come from Santiago and Mondariz, where we are heading this 
> afternoon.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
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