Dinner in A Guarda, Spain

I have lots more pictures to show you, but this will have to do for now. This was our last night, in the unique and beautiful town of A Guarda, also known as LaGuardia. This is in the northernmost part of Spain, on the Atlantic coast, which was settled early on by the Celts. They speak a language there, Gallego, which has Celtic influences. There are some very cool looking ruins of a old Celtic village on a mountain above the town, Santa Tecla. They look like Hobbit houses, perfectly round walls and thatched roofs. You can see the harbor behind us, and a bit of the town built up on the hills. It reminded me a bit of Iceland, the way the houses are brightly colored and appear to be stacked on one another above the harbor. This is where we stayed in the old San Benito convent. http://www.hotelsanbenito.es/ was a lovely hotel decorated with 16 and 17th century antiques. We made friends with the owner of a tapas bar, his name was Pedro, but we called him Senor Tranquillo. He brought us plates of olives, tortilla patata, bread, and made a delicious pitcher of sangria for Sonrisa and me. We noticed women and girls in traditional clothing walking by and finally asked where they were going. He explained that there would be a parade and a show. Sure enough, a little later, the bagpipes and drums and many dancers from all over, paraded down the walkway where we were sitting and collected in the plaza behind our convent. Sonrisa took some video, it was fun to watch all the groups do their particular dances. It was not a tourist thing, it was the local people celebrating their traditions, all ages and from all over northern Spain and Portugal. We felt lucky to have stumbled on it...