A Coruna!!

Weather: Running from Scorchio

Valdovino, near A Coruna

As the temperature reached over 35C we sadly said farewell to our lovely beachside pitch and nice neighbours and turning our backs on an invitation to a party at the campsite we ran round the corner of Spain to the slightly cooler and much much windier North coast.  We even splashed out on a toll road to get away from scorchio further and faster.  We're getting the hang of toll roads now.  At the first toll booth we stopped and wound down the window and smiled at the guy in the little hut who smiled back at us.  After a minute he cracked first and said "money" so we realised we weren't going to be given a ticket to record our starting point and paid up and moved on.

So we don't have the same fabulous sea view here but if you squint over the top of the beautiful hydrangea bushes you can still see a glint of blue Atlantic.

The wind makes this coast a surfers' paradise and we're at a sufer dude campsite.  They seem to have colonised the pitches at the top of the site where we haven't dared to go yet but we enjoy watching the parade of wetsuits and surf boards up and down past our pitch and I think the waves wear them out so much that they crash out at night rather than party.  Or if they are partying it's very quiet partying.

 But the wind makes it a bit confusing for the rest of us deciding what to wear when out.  I do try and wear my hat to conform to the smart pedestrian code here, but it keeps getting blown off my head.

We have a new BFF at the tourist info hut who waves at us as we walk past.  I think we're the only people who go in and she seemed very happy to take on some homework and translate the descriptions of some walks from Spanish to English for us.  We did our version of one of them today which included a stunning stretch of coastline with a very stylish lighthouse and the return along our local beach took us past a hotly contested Sunday football match.

So we might walk the next bit of coastline tomorrow.  All depends on whether the wind keeps us awake again tonight and we decide to move on.  But in the site's favour the wifi has suddenly started working so we don't have to do the walk uphill past our BFF to a bench on the high street, where someone has very kindly left their very fast network unprotected, to pick up email etc.  Mind you last time we went there the bench was in the sun so we used the cafe near it and enjoyed a coffee, tea and 2 croissants for the grand sum of €2 while using the free wiffy.