Monday, back to work for the Spanish nationals. I started my day with a cafe con leche and by visiting the Catedral de Orense. I wanted to sketch the icons inside this beautiful church and took some pictures of the rich and intricately gilded chapel in one corner of the cathedral.
Sometime in the afternoon, I walked past a local market where I bought two empanaditas for lunch. She sold out on the regular empanada. Then I decided to get a cafe con leche at a neaby bar. An overspill of patrons were seen drinking beer outside. I walked to the counter and ordered a cafe con leche but the bar tender gestured to the machine and in fast Galician spanish he said something I couldn't understand. It was dim inside the bar, no visible lights except for the natural light of the day and it was close to two o'clock in the afternoon. I reasoned, everything in the city must be ready for the siesta downtime. I would later learn about the power outage in Spain and in Portugal and some other European countries that day. It took many hours before the power was restored through to the night. It was a concern since my Via de la Plata Camino walk would start the following morning.
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| The As Burgas hot springs since the Roman times and the view from my Airbnb apartment room. |
As soon as I heard about the power outage I thought of you. Hope it didn't make things too difficult. I really like that sketch of the hot springs. How were your accommodations?
ReplyDeleteFortunately, it wasn't too difficult in my case. Climbed up three floors to the apartment. The three other tenants were very nice as we shared the darkened kitchen room now lit up by candle lights. The power came back on intermittently through the night but all I wanted was my power brick to be fully charged before I start walking the following morning. It did.
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