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Cambados, Spain ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ 2019

Date: 30th July 2019

Travelled: 58 kilometres from Santiago de Compostela to Cambados both in the Province of Galicia

Visited: Cambados

Stayed: Parking area on the port, free + bin. N42.51228, W08.81792

Budget: 51 days @ โ‚ฌ88 per day

After our night out on the Tapas itโ€™s a quiet start, but we have some errands this morning. Our Irish sim has a message stating our EU data has completed, so itโ€™s time for a Spanish sim and we need to do some washing.

Bit hard carrying a bag of washing 500m to the laundromat so we relocate to the southern side of the USC leaving us a 100m walk. As itโ€™s just 9am itโ€™s no problem, nothing happens in Spain until 10am, which seems to be clock-on time.

After a little shopping around, the telco Orange offer the best data v cost sim. The girl in the shop activates it and checks it works in our dongle. By the time thatโ€™s done, Pam has the washing in the dryer. A big bag of washing done and dried for โ‚ฌ7. The laundromat has excellent wifi as well so we update all our apps and move some photos onto the blog.

So we roll out of Santiago smelling a lot better than we came in. We find a Lidl on the way out, do a quick shop including a bag of ice (โ‚ฌ0.75). We have a new fridge strategy for our trip this year. On arriving in Spain we purchased a small esky for our beer and wine. The fridge stays much colder if itโ€™s opened less often. Pam says a cheap wine tastes a lot better if itโ€™s ice cold. Shopping done we continuing on the N550 south.


We stop for a coffee at some lay-by overlooking a small lake. I have a stale bread roll for the swans and ducks.

A couple of random photos as we pass through Vilagarcia, there is a service point here, so we do what needs doing and keep going.


We finally arrive in Cambados, there is no formal aire here but an area in the porte is the unofficial motorhome area, so we slide in with several other motorhomes.


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Why Cambados, according to our guide book Cambados has some of the best local seafood in the Galicia and it’s Albariรฑo wine is famous throughout Spain.



After some Google Translate we decide on dining at the Casa de Miguel. When we walked in it was empty, it was full when we left. Can recommend the seafood croquettes and the calamari with a couple of round of drinks โ‚ฌ29. Pam gives a big tick to the Albariรฑo, similar to a German trocken reisling she reports.



Looking out over the bay we see literally a hundred people wading in knee deep water, sifting for molluscs. They are only โ‚ฌ5 a bag at the market, but I suppose itโ€™s a tradition.

A bonus photo, itโ€™s not everyday you see houses where scallop shells are used for cladding. Itโ€™s common in Cambados.

We manage to escape Cambados just as our car-park becomes a gridlocked. Of the small towns we have visited in Spain to date, Cambados is our favourite.


Michael and Pam


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