From Foz I made a kind of loop, first taking a bus to Viveiro for a few hours and then taking the FEVE train to Ribadeo. FEVE is a narrow gauge train that transverses the North coast of Spain.
Ribadeo is right on the border of Galicia and Asturias. It's another one of those smallish towns that's surely more lively in the summer, although it's slightly bigger and therefore more interesting. They had a Christmas fair with vendors, more shops and cafés and so on.
Ribadeo is right on the border of Galicia and Asturias. It's another one of those smallish towns that's surely more lively in the summer, although it's slightly bigger and therefore more interesting. They had a Christmas fair with vendors, more shops and cafés and so on.
And in this last picture we're looking across the bay to Asturias, to an attractive town whose name, according to maps I found online, is Castropol. This, too, almost looks mitteleuropean; that big square tower looks like it could be placed into Luzern without too much trouble. This is an impression I got a lot while traveling up North; there are lots of pastures, green mountains, rustic chalets, cows, sheep... it really doesn't match up with the more well-known image of Spain, to wit, the arid plains or olive groves of the center and South.
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