Ruta del Cantábrico, Camino do Mar, Camino Inglés
Post by Wynette: We’ve been having technical issues. I haven’t been able to do WordPress posts from my phone so I’ve been borrowing Charlie’s phone to make posts. But it’s too much to sign him out and me in so we are just using his account for both of our posts. If a post says “Post by Wynette”, that’s me, of course. If it doesn’t say that, then it is by Charlie. Except I sometimes go back and add to his posts some. And he makes suggestions for my posts.
Post by Wynette: Yesterday we had a great menu del dia at a seaside restaurant. Below are photos of the menu (where you choose a first course and and a second course and a desert and also get bread and beverage all for a fixed price) and the carta where you choose individual items (a la carte). I noticed “Precio tupper 1 euro” at the bottom of the carta. I was particularly interested in this because we had a lot of leftovers and wanted to take them with us since we were going to be staying in an airbnb with no nearby store or restaurant for eating later. I looked up “tupper” in Google translate and it said “Tupperware”. I told Charlie I bet that is what the Spanish call any take-home container. I surreptitiously saved some of our leftovers in a plastic bag because I didn’t know how they would feel about my asking for them to be bagged up like we do in the States. I decided to ask about this on the Camino forum last night. Got some interesting replies. Found out it is just fine to ask and there is a new law in Spain requiring restaurants to comply with requests to take home leftovers. Here is link to that forum discussion: https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/restaurant-leftovers.79932/
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Post by Wynette:
I took this photo because I was impressed by how green it was, not that it was at all untypical. But when I saw the photo, I mostly noticed the blue sky. It was so windy through the night, we were worried about what it would be like walking this morning. But it turned out to be a beautiful day. You can see it’s still windy by the way Charlie‘s hat is puffed up.
We walked around a ria today. That’s a word I didn’t know until we started traveling to this part of Spain the past few years. Now I see it in the New York Times crossword occasionally. I think Charlie is making a post about this, but it was 8 miles of walking to get around the ria whereas, if we’d been a bird, we would have only had to fly less than 1000 feet to get to the other side. A ria is like an inlet, maybe involving a river (rio).
(Paul Simon) You may have noticed our rain jackets and pack covers and the grey skies in the photos. The first two days we had some rain and a lot of wind, tiring to walk in. We actually prefer cloudy weather to walk in because it is cooler. Charlie is sensitive to the sun and always wears long pants and long sleeved shirts. But wind is another matter.
Today was much nicer with less wind and more sun, in fact we got too hot.
This place is a real grill, not a casually named “bar and grill”, although it is a bar and a grill. They were just starting the wood fire when we were there today finishing up breakfast about 11 am.
Today we walked from one side of the Foz Ria to the other. A short way across the water but over eight miles to walk around.
If you have read our previous blogs you know I love falling-apart buildings, we saw these today.
This is right next to a normal building. I guess it is expensive to demolish it and they don’t need the lot.
This seems to be a construction that was halted in the middle. We saw tons of these on our first Camino in 2013 but you don’t see that many these days.
What can we say? It is beautiful.
I saw this in the Albuquerque airport as we were leaving. Due to a variety of factors gold is currently about twice as valuable as platinum. Does this mean the platinum level of service is only half as good as the gold?