Day out with good company
Moonbeam
David and Lynn Wilkie
Thu 15 Jul 2010 20:18
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This is written Thursday evening so difficult to
remember what we did yesterday! After the usual round of boat jobs we wandered
into La Corunna to look at the covered markets which were packed with seafood,
meats ,fruit and veg.
  On the way back we decided to have lunch at a
little local restaurant in the old town where the 3 course " menu of the day"
was only 8 euros! There was plenty of choice for this and the food was excellent
and the price included a bottle of beer and a bottle of wine- all for the total
of 16 euros for us both! In the evening we entertained our Dutch friends Rene
and Anneka ( he calls her Edith as they love "Allo Allo" ) and Wolfgang and
Connie from Germany. Not surprisingly the references to Allo Allo were not
familiar to Wolfgang and Connie. Despite the language barriers we had a great
evening and today we all got on the train together to Santiago de
Compostella.
Here parts of the old city are very attractive but
the atmosphere is very touristy and I think spoilt by a considerable Police
presence including riot wagons- I hardly think they had heard we were
going.
         The Spanish train was clean and comfortable
with no evidence of vandalism or graffiti and travelled at 160 km/hr!
Anyway lots of walking to work off the excesses!
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