We docked in A Coruna, Spain, this morning and the forecast was for rain all day. It didn’t disappoint!

We drove an hour through small villages which had an interesting feature, horreos, which are traditional granaries from the 1700s. They didn’t appear to be in use but everyone seemed to want to keep them.

Most horreos had a cross on one end and a pagan symbol on the other — just to be sure, it seems!

Our first destination was Cape Finisterre (considered the end of the earth in ancient times) where we got thoroughly soaked walking out to see the lighthouse and the rugged coast.

Apparently, and for reasons which we could not get from the guide, many of the pilgrims who walk to Santiago de Compostela continue on to this site.

From here we drove to Muxia and the sanctuary of the Virgin of the Boat and another lighthouse. Drenched again!

The coast here is named Costa da Morte for the hundreds of ships which have run aground on its rocky shores.

The lichen was enjoying the rain and I enjoyed it, having not seen much of it for days. But the most interesting to me were the two ladies in a little shop were making lace. It was amazing how quickly and accurately they threw those spindles around.

Before we headed back we had lunch in a Parador hotel. Almost all of these hotels are in old buildings that the government made over into hotels but ours was a specially built and modern one. It was still raining.