Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Soil and San Andres de Teixido


First thing this morning I had a chat with the young man on the dumper truck and he was only too pleased to drop a load of soil and rocks in our drive, the soil in the front is a bit shallow so this will make life a lot easier for the plants and help define the shape of the drive...once I get a few mins to move it all.

After a busy day back at work and a few hours house sorting I finally got out for a little while, San Andres is about a 20 minute drive, its not far just is a winding slow road but passes through some lovely scenery with cows...
 ...and with flowers...

... and rocks and trees.
The cliffs a little further on are the highest sea cliffs in Europe, they are plenty high enough just here but fitting in time to continue round on the road round to Cabo Ortegal is also well worth a trip.
If you don't visit in your lifetime you will visit after death is the thing people say about it, I am not quite sure what that signifies. Here is the info in Gallego.
San Andres is the little cluster of buildings down in the distance tucked snugly into the cliffside, it is almost as important as the Cathedral at Santiago de Compostella. There is a lovely walk down from the cliff top car park or you can park down at the bottom.
With a bit of a zoom you can see the famous church and where the stalls usually are, there is usually some tacky tourist stuff for sale but there is also some lovely local honey. It was quiet today but can be heaving if you visit on the wrong day.
Behind me the hills were doing soft curvy things.
At my feet the squill is flowering and there is a lemony scent in the air to go with its parma violet one.
These little things are lovely a circle of hearts with a star in the middle ahhhh.
I stopped in at Cedeira on the way back for some shopping and timed the drive past Vilarrube just right as the sun set over the estuary at low tide

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