Ria de Viveiro

Rain, rain and when you think it's about to clear up a bit, some more rain. That sums up our stay in Ria de Viveiro. We thought we would only spend one night here. But when we woke up and it was raining even harder than the day before, we decided to stay another night. We barely ventured outside. Once to the supermarket on an evening stroll, since we needed some fresh air after staying inside for so long. And once more to discover the old part of Viveiro a bit. Which, unsurprisingly, turned out into another rainy adventure. After walking around, hiding beneath our umbrellas, for a while we stumbled upon 3 bronze Heralds of the Holy Encounter. Since medieval times Fransiscus monks, the heralds, parade through Viveiro's streets to announce the start of Semana Santa (holy week starting with Good Friday). Apparently, this is all celebrated quite widely in Viveiro. Large sculptures of the last supper, judas, the virgin Mary, etc are carried through the streets during a procession. We were able to see some of the sculptures in an open exposition. We found a video of the procession, it does look quite impressive (https://youtu.be/NN3X_XiKclY?si=gKLszSq2qHepyU6r). Although the hoods have a bit too much of another resemblance in my opinion...

When we entered the Ria of Viveiro we were accompanied by a French boat Siga Siga, who we have been seeing in most of the harbours we've been to since Gijón. They took the sweet sailing video and pictures of us!Read more