We’re really not exagerating! This was the ‘queues’ in the supermarket at lunch time on Christmas Eve!
We quite happily leave our Christmas food shopping to the last minute as we know from experience, there’s no last minute rush. Of course, it will be a different matter come January 5th.
After battling our way through the hords of, er, one other shopper, we went for a picnic at the top of a hill looking down over Burela. We’d been here before, however last time it was so windy our food kept blowing away and we had to move to a more sheltered place.
The photos don’t really do it justice, however there are magnificant views:
…and in the other direction we can see San Cibroa. That’s the steam from the aluminium plant we can see and sometimes it looks quite Edwardian when all three chimneys are going. The plant is currently working at half capacity while they transfer over to green energy. By 2025 the whole thing will be powered by renewable energy and will be the first of it’s kind to run that way, which is quite interesting.
Right at the back right corner of the photo is a little port called Moras. Scene of another picnic 🙂
So the place we were on at the top of the hill would be in the background here:
This is an ‘artisan’ fishing port, which I think means it’s not commercial fishing.