So we gravitated towards San Ciprian a bit over the last few days as there is a very good hardware shop which Ian is making maximum use of buying bits and pieces to add new sockets and other things!
On Saturday, after buying woodworm killer (we have a LOT of woodworm but we got a can to treat some small things), we headed out of the town towards the aluminium plant. Ugh, talking of woodworm, I read that what I thought was wood dust that woodworm left when eating wood is actually woodworm poo ?
While Burela is a fishing port, San Ciprian is more industrial and currently the aluminium plant which appears to support the town. The town is just 2000 people in size, so the aluminium plant is quite important. Interestingly, the plant is going to run on green energy by 2025.
A Night Out in San Ciprian
On Saturday we walked back into San Cibrian and got the train home. The walk was about 50 minutes. We had planned to go to a celebration of the chestnut harvest – however we had been looking at an old poster and found we were in the wrong town! We wandered around a bit and then went to a bar in the port. It was a bit like a nautical Pepe’s!
We then got the train back, which takes 4 minutes! The last train was supposed to go at 9.30, however it was about 25 minutes late – which given the walk was only 50 mins, was quite a long wait! We are absolutely not used at all to delays on the trains in Spain. It’s funny really, as we don’t think of Spain as having, say, German sense of punctuality, however even if a train is 2 minutes late, there are sincere apologies.
However, I wonder if what we experienced was the culmination of the day’s delays. It’s a single track, and one little train that goes up and down the track, so if it gets delayed I guess then can’t make the time up. We didn’t pay on the train (and Ian didn’t when he got it before), but I think it’s only a euro or so anyway – so perhaps we’ll just have to have a more relaxed approach to train travel on our local line.
Breakfast At The Beach
We had said that we’d go out for breakfast on Sundays, however this Sunday Ian was watching the sun rise over the woods at the front and suggested we grab a thermos of coffee, make some toast and go to the beach.
And here’s something we haven’t seen much of before. Although we are very familiar with extreme weather warnings because of heat – this time we are seeing wave warnings. PLUS the 1800 figure near the top of the page is saying there’s snow at 1800 meters. That’s in the province, so all of Lugo – I wonder if this means the area which I said I didn’t particularly enjoying travelling through now has snow..?