Our Last Few Days

From Finisterre on...

We left Finisterre and traveled for several hours the next day and headed to O Grove, a peninsula above Portugal with some great beaches. We stayed there 3 nights and did absolutely nothing. What a great few days! Beach bums to the max. Stay up late, sleep in late, and enjoy some great food. We walked a lot more, but we enjoyed it. Our hotel overlooked the ocean, but the closest beach was a 30 minute walk away.

But Trey and I both enjoyed body surfing so much! Except for the small detail of the water being about 45 degrees!!! Literally, it was that cold. We ate a ton of seafood while we were there too. And seafood in foreign countries is a slightly different experience than it is in the U.S. The shrimp and fish are completely whole: eyeballs, tenacles, gills, fins, etc. looking right at you and you get to spend more time preping your food than actually eating it. Pulpo is really popular as well. Octopus legs cut up and served on a wood platter in little bite size pieces with the suckers and all. What an experience.

We took a bus back to Santiago today and are taking a train to Madrid tonight at 10:30pm. We were supposed to be on the 1:45 train, got there at 1:30 and they were sold out. So we have an overnight train to Madrid and will be there at 8 in the morning. Two days in Madrid and then we´re leaving on a jet plane!!!