834. Spain Part 1 | La Coruna & Santiago

I finally have some time now for the first blog post of Spain. We arrived a few weeks ago to La Coruna where we have our base for now. If you've followed my blog for awhile you may have seen my posts from here in the past. It is my boyfriend's hometown and where his family lives so we've come together a few times already..I think this is my 4th time visiting. For the first couple of weeks we had 2 friends come to visit from Toronto. So I haven't had much time at all to keep up with my blog and also work and everything, it is quite overwhelming. I am now very behind on all my posts and I don't know when I'll be able to finish with them all lol. I can't believe in the past I used to do daily travel posts on some of my trips.

Right now as I'm making this blog post we are in Madrid for a few days. We came once around Christmas 2018 (my first time). I really like it here. I will hopefully have those posts up soon but for now you can follow me on Instagram for some live updates!

Here is a big post of the past few weeks around La Coruna and Santiago de Compostela! Here in the photo above is their famous landmark, the Tower of Hercules. We accidentally chose the foggiest day to walk up there but it made for some cool drone shots.

Day trip to Santiago de Compostela (about an hour away)

We went hiking one day around an area called Zas. There were some forest trails and around little villages



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753. Azores Day 15 | Faial Da Terra Hike & Nordeste

Faial Da Terra is a small town with only a few hundred people, with a really nice hiking trail. The trail is very lush and rocky with some small streams running through. We spent about 2 hours hiking there and back and reached one of the waterfalls (I think there are 3 in total?). I'd say the difficulty level is moderate; there was a lot of up and down. I was pretty exhausted by the end.

There's some interesting wildlife in there (not what you'd typically see on a hike). Here we saw a wild rooster on the right, and a cat..if you can spot it in the picture.

This reminds me - some of our neighbours seem to have roosters. We are in the city and not in a rural area..just a lot of people seem to have them here as a regular "pet". A few nights in the middle of the night they started crowing/calling (?) really loud and once one starts, the others in the area start as well. They don't even do it at the crack of dawn. The past few times seemed to be like 3am. It is pretty annoying but I find the sound kind of funny. I think there's something wrong with our surrounding roosters..like they don't know they should be doing it at dawn. Or is that just like a stereotype and it's normal for roosters to just crow whenever?


Finally reached the waterfall!


After Faial da Terra we went to Nordeste which is the eastern tip of the island. From there we came back to Ponta Delgada along the North coast. The scenery was very beautiful along the way (as it is all around the island!). There's a lot of small towns scattered throughout. They more or less look the same but each has their own unique charm.



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