Day trip to Sanxenxo

Post by Wynette:

As Charlie just posted, we spent a few hours in Sanxenxo today, up the coast a bit from Pontevedra. It has a long sandy beach. It was beautiful beach-walking weather so we did a bunch of that. We were pretty shocked how urbanized the area is along the beach front. I was trying to imagine what this town was like 50 or 100 years ago.

Silgar beach. Sculpture inspired by Celtic mythology symbolizing the beauty of the sea. (Madama de Silgar).
Getting coffee in a pastry shop. We ordered the ones in the middle. The server brought out the ones on the side with the coffee. Whew!

We popped into a small church (unusual to find one open!) and were struck by how it was like a miniature cathedral complete with little chapels on the sides. It seemed like a toy cathedral. But very charming.

Little church in Sanxenxo. Seven rows of seats.
Heading out of the church.
Near the back
The other end of town, in front of restaurant where we had lunch. A very down home restaurant, with lots of locals eating there.
We had the menu. We both had the same thing: salad and Sanjacobos. The salad was good. The other wasn’t bad but wasn’t great. We felt bad we didn’t eat something healthier, especially after those pastries earlier.

2 thoughts on “Day trip to Sanxenxo”

  1. No really healthy choices for a second choice. I guess the fried fish would have been the healthiest option.

    1. Yes, not a lot of choice. But I think for “segundo” we probably chose the worst of them all. (Comment by Wynette)

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