Day 86 - Finisterre to A Coruna

So we awoke to a new journey North and East. Today we awoke to a milky sunrise, had a good breakfast a bit of a chill then headed for the bus to A Coruna. This is a large city and took Simon by surprise with its size. It has the largest promenade in Europe at 8 km long and the longest serving working light house.
Today we saw its busy streets, the retail quarter, then narrow alleyways with cafes and restaurants.
We went to our accommodation and had a few worrying moments as they couldn’t find our booking- all got sorted 😅
Then to find lunch. We found a great location down the alleyways - just in the nick of time as following us the hordes arrived watching and glaring waiting for a table to become free!!
We were looked after very well until Simon committed the faux pas of walking off with the glass water bottle- we were reprimanded and Simon returned immediately with a big apologetic smile to leave the bottle safely on a table - all was groovy. They were obviously wary of Brits abroad with glass bottles- he did happen to be wearing his bucket hat 😂
Then onto the next task of getting the washing done. We found a launderette that was being fixed by mechanics and they blew the electrics on some poor woman’s washing machine with her washing in it!! - eventually sorted but held up the process of us getting our washing done🙄
After this we went to find the long promenade and had a good walk admiring the beach - we couldn’t believe it when we were half way to Ireland 🤣
The day has been warm and sunny and as Spanish summer holidays are underway the beach busy. It was all clean and litter free 🙌 the Spanish take their litter home.
After a couple of beers, time to retire to our attic bedroom! We aim to visit Picasso’s museum tomorrow. Then back to Ferrol on our journey East.En savoir plus