Day 4 and still plenty to occupy us here.
We've been having breakfast and evening meals in the hotel, both surprisingly good and well priced.
This is a family-run hotel and very friendly and helpful.
One of the shopping streets near the main plaza. Being very disciplined about not buying anything as I have to carry it in my pack...very effective incentive.
The insignia of A Coruña in stained glass
.... and in bronze.
The tourist bureau is offering several free tours on different themes. We booked into the Picasso tour with our very enthusiastic guide. Primarily a Spanish, Galician really, tour but I thought we could manage.
La Gran Antilla Cafe existed in Picasso's time as it opened in 1903. Famous for its chocolate cake - it relates back to the early trading days when cocoa beans were first imported from Africa.
Some information about Picasso's sister and the Cine Paris. Then we lost the thread, despite our guide's engaging style...
A distraction..and the premature end of the tour for us... Spider-Man climbing up the obelisk...
Meanwhile back in the old town... the Church of Santiago. 13th century and the oldest church in A Coruña.
An intimate building with simple furnishing
Wooden sculptures
Apartments nearby
We found a restaurant lane behind the Plaza abuzz with the luncheon crowd.
A little taster plate served with drinks.
We had prawn stuffed capsicum dish, accompanied by goat's cheese and walnut salad. Dessert was hot egg-dipped Spanish bread with a toffee sauce and icecream. I was going to share but I wasn't sure Mark would like it.
Then a visit to the small Bel Artes Museum, featuring Spanish art over the centuries. We were particularly interested in the works that featured A Coruña. Here is a twentieth century work.
A nineteenth century work, featuring the Castelo de San Anton, before it was annexed to the port. It was connected by a causeway in the 1940s.
Another nineteenth century landscape with the lighthouse, the Tower of Hercules in the distance.
Nineteenth century family scene.
A modern work featuring pulpo (octopus) - on every menu in this region.
28 degrees, 5.30pm and having fulfilled our program, we walked up the Avenida de Montoto to our bus.
M&M
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