Melide, Spain

The semi autonomous region of Spain known as Galicia has been a different experience to me that Castilla y Leon or Navarre. The latter two seemed to be predominantly wine producing, the people generally seemed friendly to us and many of the larger cities we walked through were there. Galicia, which we are walking through now seems more rough hewn. The towns are almost entirely pathways for the cattle to get from field to field. The people seem harder, more cattle and dairy farming the further east. Galicia has a couple dishes that they are known for, a soup, which seems similar to italian wedding soup but without chicken, cheeses and octopus served with boiled potatoes. We have had several opportunities to eat the soup and cheeses and we have really enjoyed them. I have been looking forwatd to trying the octopus "pulpo" and today after checking in to our accommodations we set out to find beer. We settled on a corner "pulporia"--yes, there are bars that specialize in it--after being beckoned by the pulpo guy in the front, grilling and chopping and rustling up customers (it reminded us of home) and I got to try it. It was amazing, the boiled potatoes were the best I've had, ever. I ate my fill of both. We also had a cheese plate (meh) and some fried peppers (like sushito peppers). What an amazing end to a great day. Yeah, and beer too.
We are really getting down to it, we expect to enter Santiago on Wednesday, about 30-35 miles from here.
More tomorrow

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