Time marches on.

Another Saturday evening and here we are in the Failde cafe with football on the telly again. I have no idea who is playing. Last week it was the last throes of the World Cup but that's all over and done with. Tonight it might be Barcelona against I don't know who. It doesn't really matter. 

The pacing lady is here again, walking up and down the cafe just like last week while the old chap, presumably her father, sits and read the paper at the same time as semi-watching the football. She's an odd one, this pacing lady. Possibly a case of care in the community! Possibly she just likes walking up and down cafés. 

So we've been here just over a week. It seems like longer. Maybe it's because we've been busy doing stuff. And we had a trip to Pontevedra mid-week. Doing lots of things and going to different places has a weird effect on time, making it stretch out to some extent. Time is funny anyway. There's that odd thing that happens when you go on holiday and time speeds up after the midpoint of your stay. Then there's the way five minutes pass really slowly when you're on the platform waiting for a train but really fast if you need to get there before the train leaves. As I said, odd! 

We've had quite a lot of excellent sunshine since we got here. Yesterday was a disappointment, especially as it rained quite torrentially as we made our way home from the chess club last night. Today has been better, rather cloudy but mostly fine and a bit of sunshine thrown in. I hear they've been having a bit of a heat wave in the UK as well. But then, they've also had thunderstorms. 

We walked up to A Guía at the end of this afternoon. The view over the bay towards the Islas Cíes was still spectacular, even though the sea was silver rather than blue. It's hard to believe it's the same sea as we saw during last week. 

We've also "done" the Castro since we arrived. We need to visit Castrelos Park and possibly do the river walk to Samil to complete our collection of regular visits to places. Some time next week we hope to get to the fish restaurant, El Puerto, for lunch with various friends. Clearly we are ticking boxes here on the list of "stuff to do". 

In the Tour, the Italian is still in the lead. The Sky team seem to have given up on getting Richie Porte on the podium in. Paris and are now just going all out for stage wins. They've not managed it yet but there's still time. 

So that's it: just another Saturday.