{"id":7190,"date":"2024-09-02T19:56:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T19:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=7190"},"modified":"2024-10-02T13:28:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:28:36","slug":"eurotrip-13-2024-west-through-the-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=7190","title":{"rendered":"Eurotrip 13, 2024 – West through the fog…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our plan was to head slowly West along the northern coastline of Cantabria, Asturias and Galicia but we awoke to the sound of rain and the forecast is showing rather a wet week for the northern coastline of Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather along the Western coast (south from A Coruna) looked warm sunny and dry so we made a snap decision to head west some 350 miles and hope the weather improves along the Northern coast later on. One section of our journey was quite remarkable. We had hit many foggy sections but this particular area west of Oviedo (I think) was just a blanket of fog the like of which I’ve never seen before. It must be a phenomenon of this region because in the worst section there were orange guide lights along the road surface and orange \/ red beacons every few metres. We didn’t quite work out why some of them had an additional red warning light illuminated but we think it was for added warning to the cars behind that someone was ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Heading West past Oviedo, NW Spain, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Heading West past Oviedo, NW Spain, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Finally, we left the fog-bound coast and headed towards Santiago de Compostela and beyond to a small campsite between Muros and San Francisco. Camping A Vouga would be our home for the next few days. We chose a pitch outside of the main camspsite – one of around a dozen – which are right next to the beach. We have a stunning view.<\/p>\n\n\n

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View from Pitch 7, Camping A Vouga, Muros, NW Spain, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Sunday we walked the full length of the beach from the campsite to San Francisco but otherwise enjoyed a relaxing day at the campsite, including a nice evening meal on the terrace at the campsite restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Dinner at Camping A Vouga, Muros, NW Spain, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Monday and I cycled into Muros for provisions and then, complete with picnic, Moe and I headed West and North on our bicycles. Our first stop was the lighthouse of Monte Louro. Not a particularly salubrious place to enjoy our packed lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lighthouse at Monte Louro, NW Spain, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

There are a number of ship-wrecks off this rugged coastline and the one nearest to the lighthouse at Monte Louro is Capitana de la Saane – a French warship which sank here in 1543.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little further along the coast, Cardenal Cisneros was lost in 1905 – a Spanish Navy cruiser. A bit further along, a Spanish steam freighter – Ter – sank in 1896 with the loss of 281 lives.<\/p>\n\n\n

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View from Monte Louro, NW Spain, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The seond lighthouse we would visit on our tour is the lighthouse of Larino – which now serves as a luxury hotel – we assume the lighthouse itself is still operational!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lighthouse \/ Hotel Conversion, Larino, NW Spain, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Our ride ended at the port of Lira, the town itself pretty much deserted. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Lira port, NW Spain, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Just as we left Lira, we saw this ancient food \/ grain store in someone’s garden. They are elevated to keep vermin at bay and the slots allow for airflow to keep stored food from rotting. These are very common in this region of spain…<\/p>\n\n\n

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Typical grain \/ food storage barn, NW Spain, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We did find a bar in San Francisco for well deserved late afternoon refreshments before enjoying a pleasant BBQ back at the van.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we watched a couple of trawlers at work…<\/p>\n\n\n

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Fishing of the coast between Mouros and Louros, NW Spain, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our plan was to head slowly West along the northern coastline of Cantabria, Asturias and Galicia but we awoke to the sound of rain and the forecast is showing rather a wet week for the northern coastline of Spain. The weather along the Western coast (south from A Coruna) looked warm sunny and dry so … Continue reading Eurotrip 13, 2024 – West through the fog…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-north-west-spain","category-2024-europe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7190"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7494,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190\/revisions\/7494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}