Monday, 19 May 2008

Day Cuatro (Tue) A Fonsgrada - Lugo - Guitriz - Betanzos - (A Coruna) - Malpica - Baldaio (150 miles)



Nice start to the day with fast sweeping roads out of Fonsgrada with no traffic in my direction.
No coffee or breakfast today apart from a bannana as by the time I was packed up it was 11.45 and I know I had a fair bit of mileage to do today.
By the time I got to Lugo it was a lovely sunny day and 22degrees according to the neon pharmacy signs. Perfect riding weather - sunny but not too hot. Took a detour via Lugo city centre to view the intact roman wall surrounding the old town. Worth seeing but hardly worth a stop with the beaches of Galicia beckoning me.
Out of Lugo the sat nav kept trying to get me onto the A6 motorway to A Coruna but I wasn’t that desperate to make up time and I knew the N VI main road ran almost parallel to the motorway so took this route instead. Made up time on the fast N VI between the towns.
Betanzos seemed a nice old town but I didn’t hang about as I was all fired up know after my breakfast/lunch of a large bag of plain olive oil crisps and can of Nestea iced lemon tea.
Following the N NI to the outskirts of A Coruna, 10 miles of motorway then hit the Galician coast with its scenery and plenty of beaches around Caion, Noicela and Razo. Made it to my destination of the fairly large fishing town of Malpica with some of the boats selling their catch at the fish market, but despite and extensive look around the area couldn’t find the campsite and being a man was far to proud to ask for directions so doubled back on myself towards the 2 campsites I had passed at Baldaio.
A reasonable campsite mainly full of caravans parked up for the year for their owners to use for a few weekends in the summer, cheap at 7.50Euros a night though but maybe a got the only tent on the campsite discount!
Bocadillo de Lomo y queso for washed down with a cafĂ© con leche and a few glasses of sidre for tea at the campsite whilst sneakily charging the sat nav at the plug socket by my table. Watched the Spanish version of Trisha and the news but gave up waiting for the weather forecast so decide to take a stroll down to the beach at dusk through the nature reserve. Looks like it will be a warm night tonight, I suppose that’s the difference being at sea level and not at 1000metres+ up in the hills.

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