Monday 5-27
We
sleep with the window open and waking up to the view is lovely. This
morning some clouds even looked pink promising a nice day.
James
had looked on the map and we all decided that it would be nice to
explore the other side of our bay. The town is called Laxe. It was a
very nice drive and we went all the way up to that Faro. So, Corme
can be seen on the other side of the bay.
We
were in awe about all the different vegetation. So incredible. No
idea what this is but so interesting.
There
were not that many of the pink flowers. We decided that those must be
over. It must have looked amazing when they were prime.
The
longer you looked the more things you noticed.
There
was also a statue and we went closer to have a look. We all liked it
a lot. “A Espera” by the sculptress Iria Rodrigues (from 2009)
shows a mother with baby on the shoulder waiting for her sailor to
return who will never come. A very meaningful memorial because this
coast is also called “Costa da Morte” because so many ships
wrecked here and many lives were lost. Probably one of the reasons
that they thought in the middle ages that this was the end of the
world.
Ute
wonders why there are no benches until we all see picnic/resting
places all over the hill side.
Back
in the town we found a place to have lunch. This picture looks funny
but James squeezes lemon on his calamari.
Werner
and Ute had sandwiches with jamon serrano con queso.
I
felt like trying something different and had 'scrambled seaweed with
scampi'.
Afterwords
James and Werner went to the harbor … until I had to find them (to
remind them that it was only a few minutes until the supermarket
closes). They were so excited about it. It really was interesting and
I was sorry that I had missed most of it.
Here they kept watching the seagulls who were thrown the bits the fishermen cut off.
But
Ute and I had had a magnum ice cream each … and that is not bad at
all. I also found at that stand a map for them with the hike they
want to do the next three days.
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