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

[Don Dory]

I have to admit to a smile at seeing bagpipes in Spain.   The Scandinavian
people traveled a long way in their voyaging days.

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, 1:02 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 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 Sardiñeira; 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
>
> Alicante, Spain
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