Day 7: Galician Roadtrip Continued

My GPS tracker stopped tracking, so had to hand draw the rest of my route

Morning in Pontevedra

Quick walk through the market

Marisquería D'Berto

I had lunch at D’Berto, known as one of Spain’s “seafood temples”. It’s fine dining, but instead of focusing on fancy presentation or technique, their thing is that they get the absolute seafood and cooking it simply but perfectly.

It’s located in O Grove, which is quite scenic itself.

First course was Caldo Gallego, a broth made from cabbage and potato — which I didn’t order, but is quite traditional for Galicia

A single hard shell clam, very lightly cooked and served on ice

Some more percebes (barnacles). These were larger and sweeter than the ones I had in Santiago

Razor clam, cockle, and two preparations of scallops

Lobster Frito — I would normally never order lobster in a restaurant, but I’ve always wanted to try fried lobster, plus it’s one of their specialties. I think in lesser hands it would be easy to overcook lobster this way, but this was perfect. Came with homemade potato chips.

A Coruña - The Tower of Hercules

Old, (like 1st century) Roman lighthouse. Sometimes you can climb it, but apparently not today.

Playa las Catedrales

Famous beach with limestone arches. Unfortunately, turns out the arches aren’t visible at high tide, but still a cool spot.

Ribadeo

Pulling into Ribadeo just after dark, and a bit worried I’ve entered a literal ghost town. Saw no people or other cars as I drove along the road past the port/marina. There was literally no one in my hotel, and someone checked me in over video. And even in the 10 minute walk to Restaurante San Miguel, I saw no people or even any other open businesses. Fortunately, there were (exactly) two other people eating in the restaurant so I think I‘m safe. Haven’t ruled out it being a sixth sense thing, but I don’t remember Bruce Willis being able to order dinner.

Dinner, by the way, was a quite good seafood stew with clams, potatoes and chorizo. And for desert, rice pudding with blueberry ice cream.