We spent the morning in our great Laxe hotel ( whenever you are in Laxe make sure you stay at Playa de Laxe) picking a hotel in our next stop (A Coruña). We picked one from a list of all hotels in Galicia in a town on the outskirts of A Coruña. We checked out of our hotel and started driving toward A Coruña. It was an easy drive. The hotel we picked in the town of Oleiros is a gem. It is a studio apartment including a kitchen, an eating area with table and 2 chairs, a large bedroom with a bed, desk and chair, and a coffee table with 2 easy chairs. All this for about $60. We were so impressed we booked a second night.
We then drove into A Coruña. This is the biggest city of Galicia with about 300,000 people, a lot of industry and one of the largest ports in Spain. Of course it has its peninsula and both waterfronts are magnificent. It has a fairly small, but pretty old town, and some nice pedestrian streets lined with shops. Bo did some shopping. We had our comida, walked around for a couple more hours and returned to our base in Oleiros. We walked along the Oleiros waterfront and sunset. It is on the other side of the bay, exactly opposite A Coruna so the view of the lit city is magnificent. We also passed some amazing houses here. We think that Oleiros is to A Coruna what Sausalito is to San Francisco (well, maybe not quite, but at least in terms of the view).
Just a note about food here --- we’ve been shopping for wine an snacks from time to time and the selection and prices of wine are amazing. You can get a bottle of wine for as little as 69 euro cents (about $1). The bread is fantastic, not to mention a huge selection of wonderful cheeses and very tasty chorizo sausages. They also have amazing peaches, plums and grapes in season now. We’ve been eating well.
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