My peppers, Pimientos de Padron style. Well, having been in the library at Camarinas and realising how difficult it can be to follow recipes you now have step by step with pictures. Buy your peppers. Small peppers about 1-2 inches long.

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Photos of the time with Mum in the gallery now.  Southern Galicia has light winds and hot sunshine while offshore there are showers and strong northerlies.  Very pleasant and we are planning a few days in the Ria de Vigo doing the last of the odd jobs and shopping in a language we can understand […]

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Mary: Just to set the scene with you I am sitting in a very deluxe lounge almost gentlemens club type of place, cool (temp. wise) with restaurant/bar and a waitress who is very attentive. Next table along a group of gentlemen have arrived and are playing dominos all say hello to me and tell me […]

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Mary: We call at a hypermarket on the way back to La Coruna which makes us slightly late for returning the car, but they don’t notice. Well not after we tell them that the automatic lock doesn’t work and the information on the dash starts at Jan 2007 every time you start I think they […]

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David: Off around Cape Finisterre today with my mum. For those with limited spanish – Finisterre means end of the earth! Another ablum added with the photos on the way west from the border of Galicia and Asturias. Mary’s story of our trip from La Coruna will follow in a couple of days. I’ve corrected […]

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Mary: Back down to sea level at Ribadeo, what a great time we had in the Picos. Tidy up time on the boat as Kirsty, our youngest daughter, is arriving. My plan was to shop on Monday the day she arrives but its a fiesta day and all the shops are shut in fact some […]

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Mary: Christened the Peaks of Europe by returning sailors for whom this was often the first sight of their homeland. We arrived by hire car! Cangas de Onis tourist office first stop, where we found information about walks. Rather than the usual walking from sea level which is what normally happens when you arrive by […]

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Mary: Ria de El Ferrol does not get a good write up in the books but I really like it, it is sheltered because of the great big wall that has been thrown together at the entrance, which removes any swell from entering the ria. We anchor off just east of the first fort, and […]

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David: Pictures from Rias Altas and the Picos de Europa are now in the gallery.  Stories will follow shortly. Kirsty joins us tomorrow and then we will be off back to the west,  She will leave us at La Coruna and we will pick up my Mother at Camarinas on the 17th September. Lisbon by […]

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