Another two night stop and the hotel just across the carpark from the railway station, so no coach required. The weather wasn’t the best so a bit of shower dodging required, thankfully there was another great railway museum so lets do that first, it actually sits on the line of the old railway line through the town.
One of the things the town is known for is its Cider house down by the sea front so we went there one night to eat. The building looks like a ocean liner and the Cider House is the ground floor. The cider was not to our taste, its bottled and you are not allowed to pour it yourself, they have young ladies wandering round to make sure that glasses are kept topped up using the long pour method. The ceiling is covered with hanging cider bottles. Interestingly although the weather was a bit more than damp they were still washing the pavements .
On the first night we walked to the end of the harbour for dinner, it was here the owner needed the iPhone translator and knocked up a nice fish dish for us, I don’t think it was actually on the menu. The photos were taken during the day while we were checking the area out, note the bottle tree.
There is an interesting fortification on the high ground
The other side of the estuary is very industrialised with oil storage tanks down on the quay and gas storage bottles up on the hill in the background.
We had a bite of lunch in a very interesting little café/bar that had all sorts of oddments hanging around the walls and from the ceiling, it had a mezzanine floor where we sat and watched the comings and goings and spent the rest of the day wandering around town .
When we left Gijon for A Coruna the weather had really taken a turn for the worst as can be seen by the photos taken through the carriage window
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