Our day today has been awesome. Got up, packed, down for breakfast. Thanked our wonderful hosts for their generosity and headed into town.
We then walked into town to catch bus to Finisterre. Bus leaving at 1pm, so we wandered around old town. Taking it all in. I really wish you could all experience the feeling of a town that was established in the 4th century AD. It is beyond words to describe it.
Arrived at bus station along with about 50 other peregrinos to get bus to Finisterre. About an hour and half later we arrived at this wonderful fishing village.
Finisterre at one point in history was believed to be the end if the world. The most western part of Europe, which of course it isn't, but anyway, they thought so at one point.
We are here for 3 nights. We found this great apartment for 30€ a night. It sleeps 5 people, has washer (most homes in Spain don't have dryer, hung dry), full kitchen, 2 bedrooms. Amazing deal.
Didn't do much on first day here. Took short nap, bought laundry detergent and did all my clothes. Hung them out the window on the nifty clothes line attached to building.
Headed back to town to eat dinner, have glass wine. Very neat little village surrounds small bay, fishermen live here.
It is a busy place several times a day a bus load of people, mostly peregrinos, arrive from Santiago de Compostela. It is the last place many go before returning home.
Not sure when this village was established, but some of the structures look several hundreds of years old. They got really good with stone work. The streets here are paved with granite squares about 4" × 4", every street and alley. We were wondering how long ago they did the pavers, very labor intensive work.
It was a good day.
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