Santiago de Compostela, Day 2

We took a full day bus tour from Santiago northwest to the coast visiting numerous places including Punta de Maceiras, which has a picturesque 12th century bridge and stone water mills dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. On to the town of Muros with its bateas (floats made of eucalyptus wood with ropes attached for growing shellfish). Muros was delightful because we stumbled into a small bread shop, and ended up with a loaf of bread, a large cream puff, and two teas for six Euros. And it was fun!. Other stops included Ezare where a waterfall flows directly into waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Cape Finisterre and its lighthouse which was known as "The end of the earth" in Roman times, a small city named Cee the final stop at Muxia (where we were driven back to the bus by a sudden rain squall) which is the home of the legend of the Virgen in the Stone Boat, as well as a Celtic legend about balancing rocks. Back to Santiago for an evening of catching up.Read more