Restaurant leftovers

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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Menu del dia
Carta

Blue skies

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).

I get all the news I need from the weather report

(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.

Decrepit buildings

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.

Another one, close to Foz.

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.