A Coruña Day 2

Today I walked through what yesterday was a cold, windy, gray ghost town and found blue skies, warm weather, cafes full of people who all looked super contento, kids playing in the parks, and people lounging on the beach. I don’t know where yesterday’s A Coruña went, but I don’t have time to find out because I’m leaving early tomorrow morning.

I took advantage of A Coruña’s improved attitude by walking several miles to (and up) the Tower of Hercules, a lighthouse built by the Romans in the First Century AD, when they were in charge of Spain (and most of Europe). It’s the oldest known lighthouse from the Roman Empire. 

It was modernized somewhat in the 1700’s but it is fundamentally still the original, so it had good bones, as they say. I’m sure when Gaius Sevio Lupo finished this thing he probably said something like “well this lighthouse isn’t going anywhere anytime soon,” (but in Latin of course), and he was right. It’s still here 2,000 years later. 

I was at that point also pretty much at the end of Spain, which looks like this.

Then tonight, dinner at a fantastic restaurant that I made a reservation for a month ago because that’s how you have to do it at this place. They recommended the tasting menu, which is 9 or 10 “courses” of small plates and the food was amazing. Not sure I would come to A Coruña just for this, but if I were anywhere near here again I would definitely come back to this place.

Up tomorrow at 6 am to (hopefully) find a taxi and then a train that can get me back to Santiago de Compostela and to the airport in time for my afternoon flight. I thought this wasn’t something I had to plan out ahead of time and by this time tomorrow I’ll know if I thought right.