Walk with us the Coastal Way of St. James Virtually!
The Coastal Camino Way is the third most frequent pilgrimage way of Saint James with 52,746 pilgrims during 2023, an increase of 75% compared to 2022. The total amount of pilgrims that walked the Camino de Santiago in 2023 was a record-breaking 446,035 pilgrims. During our virtual live-streaming camino walk we will follow part of the Portuguese Coastal Way coming into the noble seaside village of Baiona, Galicia, Spain. I will be accompanied by my good friend Mark Auchincloss a camino expert who has walked the way many times. A wealth of knowledge about the pilgrimage way and in fact, he lived in Baiona for many years. As we walk (virtually), we will chat about what it is like to walk the pilgrimage way of Saint James, and we will go beyond the Camino trail to show you some must-see sights when visiting Baiona… https://www.eatandwalkabout.com/en/spain/virtual-experiences/walk-the-coastal-camino-way-baiona-galicia.html
Here you can find out more about the Town Council of Baiona (Concello de Baiona) in our Destination guide… https://www.eatandwalkabout.com/en/spain/galicia/baiona
Read here our 10 Best Things to do in Baiona…
https://www.eatandwalkabout.com/en/blog/10-best-things-to-do-in-baiona-galicia-spain
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Oh no it’s no no there’s nine connected let’s see if it works let us know where you’re coming from everyone we’ve got the Beautiful views of the coast here logged on a bit earlier to check our audio so let us know if you can hear us hi Katherine good to see
You we’ll turn around the screen in a bit to give the intro once we start it in five minutes my friend Mark’s here as well say hi Mark good afternoon everyone that’s Katherine there and hi they were following on heo when we did our tours
And that era and now come over to our YouTube channel which is great so the heavens have just opened up for us hi Susan good to see you hi Natalia good to see you say tell let us know if it’s a first time you’ve been with us or
If you’ve been before previously on hego and let us know where you’re coming from the weather today what’s the weather like Mark weather’s about well it’s going to be dry and it’s actually quite warm so it’s it’s perfect you could say it’s perfect walking conditions today a bit overcast but it’s
Improving that’s great and I’m so happy that the Mist burned off and now we’re getting these nice Coastal views here in front of us we’ll wait a little longer for everyone to log in and we’ll turn around and show you what we’re going to be focusing in at our little route walking along
Bona little Glimpse there as well and natal I found you back here from the Netherlands yes good to see that you found us again I’m going to turn the camera around now so you can see us this is a monument where you can get spectacular views here and you’re going
To see firsthand with us go there we are well Sean here how are you doing and this is my friend Mark and we’re going to be talking about the Camino and more and Beyond in biona here let’s get this gimbal around right there we go you can see the beautiful views
Through the pine and eucalyptus trees behind us and all the granite surrounding us and with this beautiful Monument we’re going to show you here and look at the sun’s coming on it now that’s going to be brilliant so if you’re just logging in let us know where you’re coming from hi
An it’s coming from Ontario she was with us on the hego days as well hi hi Margaret good to see you from London yes it’s great let us know where you’re all coming from we love to see how this connectivity and being able to do things virtually this is Mark again everyone
Mark and Sean here in biona and we’re lucky that the day has just opened for us the afternoon for our walk it’s always nice walking and not getting wet isn’t it on the Camino must be hard yeah although uh we are in Spain although yes we’re in Galia as well so
It can rain here and we’re on the coast but today we don’t have to worry about the rain yeah lucky lucky us I’m on and off the Camino quite a bit my thing’s more eating isn’t it that’s the hence the name eat and walk about but I do enjoy walking and all these
Camino trails are so picturesque and so many to choose from and we’re going to show you all the different trails that there is so we still got a couple more minutes if anyone has any questions go right ahead and as you’re logging in let us know where you’re coming
From I might even have to put on my sunglasses in in the long run that’s good so we’re up at a vantage point here where we can see over the coast and down to where we’re going to walk right through bayona through the village so
This is where I thought will be a good place to start cuz we’re really off the Cino well in between Caminos and it’s a good way to get a a visual picture over top started snowing where you are in wow it must be minus over there here is
About 15 14° C when I first arrived probably about 16 now yeah about 60° fah but this area of Spain of course is very humid in Galia so we get a lot of humidity level lots of rain that’s why it’s so green like behind
Us so if you just logged in let us know where you’re coming from Mark and Sean here in biona we’re going to take on a little walk on what day is is Day St Patrick’s Day I didn’t even realize I planned it on St Patrick’s Day so you see I’ve got my
Green on Where’s your green mark bad boy yeah but yeah we’re GNA enjoy a nice walk and talk all about the Camino and biona so everyone first of all sound check you can hear us both okay thumbs up if you can hear good and the visuals are good
Brilliant one more minute and then we’ll get our full intro and then we’ll going to go actually up to you’re going to get a surprise we’re going to go up a tiny staircase see if I can fit through it no I almost got stuck we almost we almost
Didn’t be able to start the start the virtual tour but it’s an adventure oh an adventure even virtually with us hi from Toronto as well we’ve got we’ve got London Toronto Tero that’s great all over the place all good all good great we always like to do our little sound check beforehand and
Visuals and we’ll have to see going up here we did a test beforehand going up the spiral stairs at the top of the statue and it was good so all right everyone we’re live 5:30 we’re welcome again to our channel here at eat and walk about today we’re in biona Galia
Spain my name is Sean you’ve probably been with me before well some of you have I can see by your names I do food wine and walking tours through Gala originally from Vancouver Canada but I’ve lived here for 25 years my friend Mark behind me he can tell you a bit
About himself oh yeah well I do uh food as well uh gastronomy uh videography I take videos like Sean sometimes and they tell me that I’m a Camino expert definitely he’s my got Guru Guru to come to when I need something about the Camino and his guided tours for for
My clients and they’ve loved it so he’s the man on the Camino and has the Gastronomy in it as well so Sean and Mark here hello to everyone Ben Vos here to Gala to bayona and now we’re going to show you a little map hi from Florida
Good to see you Chris from Vancouver I’m going to turn the screen around and you’re going to be able to see a map I’m going to focus in so those of you who don’t know what the Camino the Santiago is there’s quite a few of them so we’re
Going to show you on actually the Pilgrim’s passport called the credentials let me and we’ll see here first of all we’ve got can everyone see that I’m going to focus in here we’ve got a map and you can even probably scan that QR or take a screenshot there whoever’s online line
There we’re going to start from over here so we’ve got first of all the northern way which is up here up at the top then we’ve got the red one there that cuts in that’s the Primitive way and goes all the way to Santiago and the most frequented way which is the French
Way which is this one right here let me know if you can see that everyone trying to get it as stable as possible goes right there to Santiago then we’ve got the via the Plata that comes from the south all the way from seevilla from Seville all the way up to Santiago we’ve
Got the winter way here and we’ve got as well the two Portuguese ways you see this is a Portuguese from Lisbon down here Lisbon all the way up to Santiago and then right here where we got Mark the last one the most important where we are we’re on the Portuguese Coastal Way
And there you are you can see by Honor where we are which is about 130 km to Santiago de compostella so you can start this from biona because that’s the amount you need at least 100 kilm no Mark to be able to get the compostella
At the end 100 km if you’re walking 200 km if you’re by bike and 100 by horseback as well I think it is 100 by horack as well yeah so you can op to either do the Inland Portuguese way from all the way down to lisban or start even in Porto or biona
And do the coastal way so those are all the seven ways that come up outside of the borders of Galia and if we turn the page here this is actually the credentials of the pilgrim like the pilgrim passport that we’re going to show you later cuz we’re going to get a
Stamp inside the church here of Santa Maria so you’ll get another view of this so this is the borders of Galia here it’s all the region and you see there’s actually nine paths this time so all the ones that we just mentioned coming into Galia but then we have this one here
Which is the English way see the English way cuz the English used to come all the way sail over and start in F real F or aaronia and walk all the way down and then there’s even one that extends all the way on to L’s end you’re saying Mark
There you’re saying but that when you have to go through mashia know if you want to get a compostella yeah you you you can actually get a compostella if you start in musia um and if you go via the cabal fista because that’s 120 km so that’s more than 100
Kilm um now some pilgrims when they finish in Santiago they want to go on as you say to the end of the world as the Romans used to say uh to fista uh so there are uh so it’s double double marked so you can you can go
Either way but it’s it’s it’s becoming more common to go from Santiago on to the fista and then or musia or both following to the end of the Earth so then land ends even before the Romans the Kelts used to do it as well as you know in Scotland Ireland Wales they have
L end too so they used to follow the Stars to the end so there we go there’s that little map there and we can see the last little map is of all the roots of Santiago of St James that get to Santiago we won’t get into explaining
All those ones no we’ll be here all day and we want to show you the nice sites here in biona but there we go and here’s again the Pilgrim’s passport so it’s really the where you get the stamps on in each place as you go along on the
Trail and we’re going to actually get a stamp today virtually with you so we’ll put that away now and we’re going to focus right so those of you just logged in Sean and Mark here in biona and now we are up at the beautiful site of the virgin of the rock the
Verion the Rocka so tell us a bit about this Mark right well it it was actually inaugurated in 1930 so it’s been up and uh running from 1930 it’s the work of the galipan architect and anonio pfos who’s from Perino which happens s to be on the
Portuguese way um now it’s 15 M high now we’re going to go right to the front of it because it’s of the Virgin Mary and she’s carrying a boat in her right hand now this is a granite Monument Granite Stone which is the prevailing Rock in um
In Galia um but you may notice now uh we’ve got the hands of the Virgin Mary 50 m above ground um and they are white because they are along with the face of the Virgin they are made of marble and you can see a boat there
Which is a a Viewpoint so there’s some people up there um and the views are absolutely incredible what do you think you think we can get up there mark let’s go for a TR we’ll try yeah but look at the detail of this here we’re going to wait for
Them to come down cuz you’ll see the spiral staircase is quite tight look at the detail of all the rock the granite rock by Antonio Palos I’ll Zoom all the way up again so you can get your screenshots and postcards but look at the detail here great work and the
Virgin of Carmen’s very important here the protector of the sea and they have a procession even by boats with all the fishermen they’ll go out with flowers on their boats so she’s known to take care of the fishermen and as well there’s an important Festival a pilgrimage really
That come all the way up here it’s called a romaria the romaria the verion the Roa so they do that every year on the last Sunday of September they come all the way up the trail here there’s a see the crosses down there we’re actually going to walk down it no Mark
Well those people are walking up here yeah we’re going to go down that way cuz it’s a shortcut into the town of biona and then you get these spectacular views that is the theas the Seas Islands in front of us an archipelago of three islands there that we’ll talk about as
Well when we get different views and two other Islands protecting the Bay of biona as isas ISRO and then we’ve got beautiful Bay coming in here and we’re going to get on to this at the top I think let’s see if we can get up to the top and we’ll
Explain from there there still people up at the top yeah there is a lady and ing The View still yeah it’s hard to get come down after all these views there just beautiful and we got all the pine eucalyptus so there’s the part of the
Way we can show them here how the yellow path there so that’s where you can do it if you’re doing a by bike now yeah so you know the the route uh the coast away comes up from uh the south from Portugal so we’re not that far from the Portuguese border about 30
Km from the Border Town of aguarda the other side of the border is Cia so the pilgrims have got to go across the river moo into Galia and then up the coast line now just before Baya um at the taso atlantico hotel just before there the
Camino goes up over the hill via bedle and because it’s a shortcut but many pilgrims have an option they can either try the harder route the official route or they can carry along along the cycle track there you can see a cyclist now passing because it’s nice and flat as
You come into bayana so in fact there’s two routs and we’re going to have be having a look at them in a minute so we’re like in between both of the coastal routs so we’re off the actual Camino path but it’s a detour where you can enjoy the
Look now we’re going to see if we can go up we’re going to go up to the top now is there someone still up there mark see if there’s anyone there and we’re going to take our way up we’re clear I think we’re clear watch the tightness of this
Everyone ah there’s three up at the top coming down yeah they’re coming down now so we’ll wait a second got three at the top and then when they’re coming down we’ll go up cuz there’s no way I’m going to get by them just a second it’s a
Tight tight spiral stair up to the top but well worth it well worth the views so you can see there’s the entrance fee therea EUR 50 and opens in the afternoon starting at 4: and you see the hours there as well 11: in the morning till 2:00 and then 4: till
6:30 it’s a good little detour and well worth the views once you get up to the top even from here of course if you don’t have time to go all the way way up to the top of the the hand but we’re going to do it with you
Virtually so if anyone just logged in let us know where you’re coming from and has anyone done the Camino before that’s something that would be interesting to know and if you’ve done a Camino which one so here I’ll explain a little bit there what’s in front of us and we’re
Going to get a view even better view up at the top that’s all the town of biona down here that we’re going to talk about biona as we walk down and this is where it all originated where the whole town originated because that used to be an
Ancient Celtic Hill Fort from 2 Century B BC in Monte dooy and then later on they built the castle walls there was a castle in the 10th century and a fort and then after it turned into the Palace of the counts of gondar I’m going to zoom
In okay we’re ready okay we’re ready let’s continue this upstairs we’re ready to go up hold on to your seats everyone we’re going to go right up to the top of there virtually what time is it here time now is just uh 5:45 okay let’s go look how tight this
Is you can see I don’t have much should in here we’re going through a cave right up to the top all Granite now Mark another Mark Mark was saying that they walked the Portuguese away from Garda oh just down the coast yep fantastic that’s still quite a long
Walk from there about about 160 km Santa Maria look at these stairs here all Granite spiraling around we got little tiles on here as we go up I’m taking a nice and easy cuz I don’t want to get you dizzy and I sure don’t want to get dizzy Santa M
Deos oh we can start seeing the light Markus saying I love biona even Mark lived here how long did you live here biona yes when I moved from I used to be a town planner in in uh England in London and Bristol I moved here um back in
2010 so I used to live in Baya until the pandemic so good 10 years so you could say I know and a lot of people in Bion know me very well look where we are now wow isn’t it that’s amazing there’s the marble face of the
Virgin look at the detail in the Crown’s made of porcelain get my breath back a little bit and look you can see the detail of the hand the marble look at that and now what we came the views so I’ll start from over here again that’s the theas the CES islands
Archipeligo of three islands which is San martinho farro and Monte aulo they are Nature Reserve Parks since 1980 and they’re part of other archipelagos to the next Bay one called on there’s two islands another archipelago called salv and cagal they’re known as Atlantic Islands Park let zoom in
If you’ve done virtual tours with us before with tin and I my son he’s told you all about this cuz we’ve done from another Lookout Point way over in that Peak here way over here we went visit a hill Fort oh you’re more than welcome bringing you back
Here and now we’ve got two other islands and zoom out that’s the isora ISA the is Stellas and they protect the Baye we’ve got all floral FAA you can get over to the islands of theas by fairies in the summertime from biona and as well from Vigo summertime and spring and spring
They’ll be starting in s Mana Santa Easter now all the boats it’s a big attraction here so now we’ve got the beautiful Bay of biona no markall this is well apart from a a sailing destination y nautical Club it’s as well a fishing Town isn’t it it’s been always been a fishing Town
Yeah so the origin the name by Honor is interesting it’s a Celtic term which means oh by is Bay by honor honor is safe the word safe so it’s the safe Bay by Honor yeah look at the bay all enclosed there the safe Bay and we’re
Asking how high are we about 15 M right now from the sea level it’s about another 100 m so we’re about5 M see there and there’s the trail that goes all the way along there now we’ve got in front of us that I was explaining before that was the origin of
The city Monte the boy and then it turned into the castle the fort all people used to live within the walls but it was quite restrictive and then they decided to they felt like they were in prison really in these walls so they actually extended and moved after the
13th century and built all what biona is now on the land here and made the fishing port and everything cuz this is a coast that had lots of attacks from Pirates and everything coming up this Coast so they want to protect them within the walls the king of the time
Now it is a beautiful location to stay this is a have you heard of a parador anyone parador is a chain of historic hotels owned by the government it started in 1926 I think it is and this one here was 1966 where they bought it over and
Turned which used to be the Palace of the counts of gondomar into a fourstar hotel and look at the views you got so when you stay here this is a good location to stay at and and the walkway that you see around there we’re going to
Take a walk around that so we’re going to go right around the parador so you can get views from the Poo the Monte De boy so that is the parador of bayona the Condes the gondomar the vi counts of gondomar look at the views today get your postcards
Everyone and as we see here so we saw the coastal Cino there no Mark that comes along the coast and then there’s another one that’s if you’re going by bike you can point out there I’m going to hang on yes cuz the great views that we’ve got we can actually see the official
Camino come in from from the south so from aguarda it goes over the hill and Via biona and where I have my finger there the brow of the hill so below the the peak there the Stony Peak the Camino comes in where those houses are and it
Follows the contour line oh yeah along uh to the white painted house there and then you can see the lane that curves its way down and that lane goes all the way down into the center of Ayana where the football fields it comes out with the football field and then it heads
Towards the two churches that we can see in the Square Santa liberata Square you can see the two quite large Stone churches to the right is the Santa liberata church and to the left is the Romanesque the older Church the 13th century Santa Maria hold on let me zoom
In you see there there’s the CH two churches one here one here that’s where we’re going to no Mark that’s where we’re heading next it’s a good 50 minute walk to get our credential stamped that’s right and we’re going to meet Don Manuel the priest he’s been so nice to
Let us film inside so here we’ve got all the biona and we’ll talk about biona as we go population is 12,500 but during in the summertime it grows three times that up to 45,000 even so it’s a destination for National tourism all the way from Madrid they’ll
Come here and it’s all other parts of Spain too and we’ve got the nautical club for sailing cuz that’s what the main attraction is as a sailing destination and it’s a good spot to start your Camino or even stay on a short break in the parador and do the
Wine turning around here all the wine country close by so there’s your last shot of the theas islands and the other is Le estas now we’re going to go down and we’re going to walk hi Kathy from Winnipeg good to see you look at here I’m hanging onto the rail cuz we’re up
High Mark’s getting under now he’s going through the hole look at our hole there it’s not easy so bear with us yeah see we’re doing this for you guys virtually so we hope you enjoy it there’s the last shot of biona and now we’ll see from another
Angle and I’m so happy the sun’s starting to come through the clouds there and let’s head down I have to take a seat first easiest way you want to see the face again hold on a second let me reposition here for a second hold that for a second
Mark I’m going to stand up again no worries without any incidents okay they want to see that nice face again okay everyone last shot see here’s a part of the boat so when you saw it we’re down there so we’re inside a little boat in the hand the hands below us there that’s
The other hand and now here’s the face of the Virgin everyone get your postcard there your photo G and the crown so now let’s continue on you’re welcome now you’re going to have to bear with me here Mark if you can grab a hold of that for a sec sure and then that’ll
Get down there easier teamwork always good perfect thank you see how tight it is there mark going around the spiral stair it’s difficult I have my backpack on and I couldn’t even get around the corner so I had to take it off so now we’re going to spiral down
Here this is a nice surprise with the tourism of biona thanks to them they got us to be able to come inside here and see up at the top and film made it made it sound safe and sound you I got to watch these little stairs my big clumsy feet graas
Graphia Mark says Mark you’ve got beautiful blue eyes thank you that’s that’ll be my Scottish uh Scottish born eyes thank you now we’re heading down we can get down this way no around yes yeah it’s open cuz it’s nice and calm now so there’s no wind so we’ve got the go the
The goahead to do a little shortcut good I’m going to get my backpack on I’m going to get my backpack on now cuz I couldn’t have it on my back when I was walking up there Mark’s a fast walking can see look he’s already leaving me behind they had some winds here Follow
The yellow arrow here hold that for a second again Mark I’m going to put my backpack on there just hold it right like that and I will get my backpack on here perfect thank you Mark now let’s start the trail so we had lots of Storms and wind this winter and
It seems they blew down one of the signs of the Cross here cuz obviously the the ways of the Cross Stations of the Cross and then we’ve got a few trees that came down but they’ll be fixing that up of course and there’ll be an off
Season now of course here in Galia when you’re doing the Camino and when you’re walking in general rolling G yeah you got to be very careful cuz we’ve got lots of granite rocks and boulders so you have to have good Walkin shoes and watch your footing watch your
Footing and I usually like to go down sideways on most of the things as well just in case so now when they would come up to the fesal that I was explaining to you the raria the version the Rocka so the pilgrimage of version The Rock that’s
The last Sunday of August they will come right up here with the Statue of the Virgin and follow along the Stations of the Cross and we’re getting get another angle From Below now so there’s one of the stations and we’ve got there behind you see where we came from that’s the back
Side of the virgin of the rock now we’re going to SK quite wavy still the other day when I came here we were going to do this last Sunday but there was no way it was just like 8 m wave 7 to8 crashing in and very windy and this is where it’s good
With no wind what about the rain yeah and the rain rain’s terrible with a virtual touring but we’re lucky here and the Mist burned off so you can see it’s right on a granite outcrop the name of this hill is a Susanna Hill and the name
Of the structure again is the virgin of the Rock in galatian it’s the virin the Rocka built by Antonio Palos beautiful views isn’t it everyone walking along this look how close we are to the coast of course so this a nice little detour that Mark told me and said
Look you can take this to come up and see the Viewpoint and then continue on the Camino and look at the peaceful views all the nature I’m going to come right around here so you get the view of the front here we go this is a nice shot from here let’s do the
Brush and get an idea and I’m going to get another angle too Bridge another rock nice with the clouds there now and I will come around to the other side as we’re going so we’re on in between I should say the Coastal Way Portuguese Coastal Way and this
Again for everyone that just logged in version the Rocka there’s the boat you see I’m going to zoom in so you can see where we were up at see there people up there that’s where we were right up at the very top zoom out again I always say zoom in zoom out
Because it does a little cut off right when I zoom in and out so try to talk in between and now we’re seeing the parador again and this is spot when you’re staying here or having a drink like I think uh someone mentioned there a good
Spot for even if you’re walking the C you’re not staying here to go have a drink on the Terrace and even Sunset to walk around the walkway is gorgeous but we’ll leave that to later cuz we’re going to walk around a part of it a little bit early for the sunset but
We’ll see the views one thing to point out before we say goodbye to the sea Islands and the North Atlantic part of the North Atlantic Islands which is it’s not only a a national park but it is a candidate UNESCO world heritage site so we are actually waiting for confirmation
So it’s very likely to be confed confirmed as a UNESCO an additional UNESCO world heritage site for gfia but it it may still take another year for the official confirmation yeah for we’re waiting for that see them there they are again beautiful islands where they’ve got golden sandy beaches even one of the
The main Beach that connects to the islands rota’s Beach was known as the best beach in the world from the guardian travel a few years ago and it said the galatian Caribbean the only difference is the water’s freezing of course we’re in Atlantic here the water
Is cold but with a wet suit you’re fine lots of uh floral fauna marine life and it’s a big uh attraction for people to come to and take the ferry out there or sail the nautical when you go all sailing out there with a sailboat you do
It right from here from biona at the monterial Yacht Club so the great thing about starting up here is is is is getting a feel for the geography of where we are the southern part of the Galia on the Atlantic coast facing 5,000 km of open Atlantic Ocean um and we’re
Looking at the EST now and the Fortress and again we’re breathing so much history here because this Fortress is at least 2,000 years old so you can imagine what’s been happening over those 2,000 years from the Phoenicians the Romans the Romans were here so Julius Caesar was here uh looking for help with
Reinfor forcement because his fleet was attacked by Portuguese tribes further down the coast and they chased them as far as the se’s islands where they were trapped uh but Julius Caesar landed here and got help from the local residents with uh some ship repairs and and extra
Resources and then of course in more recent times we have the Vikings we have the Moors we have the Portuguese we have Napoleon the France Fran Drake we have the Pirates himself in the 16th century s Francis Drake was here and all of that all those conflicts have taken place
Within turrets within those walls of the Fortress just amazing how much history and a little Seaside town like this an attraction for tourism but as well for history lovers and of course we’ll get on to the main thing no the arrival of laint when we get down there in 1493 the
Discovery of the Americas the first word of it so we’ll we’ll get down to that I did a live to her about that as well if anyone join I’ve got a replay on it on YouTube so there’s a nice Road you see that leads all the way
Up so by car as well you can get here there’s a virgin there again and now we’re going to continue all the way down to the church cuz we got a an appointment with the priest Don Manuel because there’s a mass at 700 so we want to be there beforehand and then
To be able to show you inside privilege of being able to go inside and then as well get a stamp on our Pilgrim credentials now if anyone has any questions as we’re walking go right ahead we’re coming into the town now so again a population about 12,500 now the
Last statistics but then it triples really in the summertime and it’s a destination that all year round is beautiful will live in and they’ve done this nice with the wooden walkway all the way up here so we’re coming to the residential area there’s all houses Apartments
A lot of people opt to live here as well that work and commute to vgo vgo is the biggest city here in galaa with 300,000 inhabitants a lot of people live here on the outskirts cuz we’re only what 25 minutes now Mark by car vle yes it’s
Yeah very possible to to live in biona and work in in beo so a lot of people do that and as well as getting here getting here by flights you’ve got the airport of vle there’s flights that come in from Madrid I think there’s one starting from
London as as well and then as well you can come through Porto in Portugal cuz you’re only an hour 15 hour 20 minutes away a lot of people fly in there and then they get transferred up to biona if they don’t want to walk the whole portion of the coastal way from Porto
They can start from here being 130 km and you even usually backtrack a little bit to OA know to the Village here and walk that little bit too yeah it’s nice or or or like it’s already been pointed out we had someone talking about aguarda another potential point to start your
Camino so there’s various spots you can start but the main thing is if you want to do it to get the compostella at the end the document at the very end you have to walk at least 100 km which is 62 mil and that’s consecutive and you
Couldn’t start at one point and then end before s die and come back and do it no you have to do it consecutively either 100 or more and walk all the way to Santiago and of course when you are in Galia you have to make sure that each each day you get two
Stamps the rest of Spain it’s just officially it’s just one stamp obviously pilgrims like to fill up their their credential so people like to get quite a few stamps uh to make sure that their credential is nice and full so we’re walking through along the main street right now and we’ll tell you
Right when we’re on the commun look at those beautiful flowers there so everything grows here in G Chamas is a time of year as well the chamia trees grow very nice in the winter time and then in the lat late spring early spring I should say but being a microclimate where everything
Grows and now someone’s asking here how long would it take to do the 100 full kilometers Mark well um now uh I like to say that um there’s no hard and fast rule as to how many days you should take to do a Chino because everyone is different everyone walks at a different
Pace different age groups so uh to my advice is don’t worry too much about time um you know do in what you’re comfortable with how many kilometers you’re comfortable with or miles per day so if you’re comfortable doing 10 km a day then then do 10 kmers a day that
Means you’ll Comm longer um of course you have the guide books so the guide books will talk about what from biona which is sha is saying is is now an important point to start your Camino um the guide books would probably say about 6 days it’s about 130 km so you
You can do it in six stages from biona I wanted to point out that is it’s an oreo an Oreo not the cookie but a granary h o r e o Oreo and that’s a granary where they put away from all the rats and mice see the stilts that it has they can’t
Get up there they would keep their grain and corn inside that’s a real cultural symbol of Galia throughout you’ll see them scatter throughout all the the countryside especially where they have a lot of the Corn gr it’s called an Oreo so about six days now from Bion you
Say it’s a good Pace it is doable I take a lot of walking tours a lot of groups Americans uh British uh Australians uh from biona and we normally do it people are normally fairly comfortable doing it in in six stages six okay and that’s about more how many kilometers a
Stage well the the first stage is probably the longest day from from B onor to beo it can be if you’re walking from hotel to hotel it could take you up to 30 km okay the first day the other days yes normally about 20 km or so which is you know 12
Mil nice little houses and you can see the name of the street dedicated to the statue Rua which means Cay in Spanish Ru is in galatian and vers Thea so now we’re coming right down this little part here is where we come into the residential area so you’re walking
On Trails through Villages through streets all different types of terrain know on the Camino Market changes quite a bit Yeah well I’ll come on to the statistics about the Camino and what’s been happening over the uh the last few years and give you some a feel of how many
Pilgrims are doing the Caminos cuz it’s certainly true that the Portuguese uh coastway is becoming a lot more popular because it is a relatively easier Camino uh when if you start in Porto and you’re going up along if you follow the coast especially along the boardwalks
It’s relatively flat to get when you get to till you get to gfia um from from from biona um Igo can get more hilly to towards Santiago so the terrain is mixed here is nice and flat this part from biona and here we’ve got all the nice
Apartments and parks for the kids there as well so beautiful little town to live in too A lot of people have Holiday Homes here a lot of my American clients or British clients that come to buy hon us tell me Mark Mark it’s such a lovely
Place we want to live here when we retire and of course yeah a lot of Spanish people um that are retired do have Holiday Homes here or they they come and retire here lot of people from Madrid especially have um Holiday Homes so it can get very busy by Honor in um
July and August especially rest of the year it’s still relatively uh unexploited yeah we got a question here mark from Kathy so where do you obtain the credentials you’re talking about there’s one register somewhere before beginning their walk that that’s a very good question because um increasingly um
Because we’re we’re talking about biona which is a increasingly a popular place to start your Camino so um it is now very easy to get your credential in biona now where do you get your credential in bonor well many of the hotels so if you ask your hotel you’re
Staying in the reception the reception team will have a stock of credentials for you now if they did run out of their credentials there’s other options as well there’s the tourist office so you can go to the local tourist office during working hours or where we’re
Going now we’re going to take you to the priest father Manuel and um the church will give you a credential so there’s no problem whatsoever now days getting your credential especially if you’re starting in a popular destination uh starting point it might be harder um depending on
Where you intend to start so you may need to do some planning in advance so there’s a commo to Santiago Forum has a shop um so you can look at this uh online uh commun of Santiago if you do a search commun of Santiago Forum they
Have a shop you can buy a Credential Online and they’ll send it to you and they’ll ship you ship you out uh no problem to Canada America or or London wherever you happen to be now look where we are so we’re on the trail now the official Trail no more
Right yes so we’ve got the iconic symbols we’ve got the yellow arrow and we got the scallop shell so the two iconic symbols of the commun of the Santiago the the the yellow arrow which was uh a relatively modern recent invention by the priest a galipan priest
In s the Parish of Sao Church Far ilas valinho Sedro they in invented the yellow arrow back in the80s and then you got the iconic scallop shell the significance of the scallop shell with the Camino well there’s Legends there’s myths uh there’s lots of commentaries about the its importance it significance
So it had many practical per purposes as scallop shell because obviously pilgrims used to walk with the scallop shell um and he would use it as a plate so it would be used for scooping out water from a fting or if they went to a church in ancient times that the church would
Give them some food and it was a good way of measuring the quantity of food that they they could give uh so it has different meanings uh s Santiago um actually rescued a knight from the sea and the Knight was covered in scallop shells so the the scallop shell all all routs
Caminos run to Santiago Santiago the compella so you can see all the different routs to Santiago this one is actually not been installed properly cuz Santiago is not that way it’s You Follow the yellow arrow so if there is any doubt always follow the yellow arrow yeah some some of the scallop shell
Tiles that they put in the person that was putting it they put it around the wrong way so we’ll you went the right way as well so this is where you come down no the street here you were saying that that’s where the official communo comes down from the hills from the hills
And this is where it meets and we come into Bay now into first marker right ahead is where the old town is the the entrance to the old town where the church is now we’re going to go to the church just we get there before Mass we and playing football soccer over there
In the Canada and the states so we got their teams here Iana no Iana isana yeah the name of the local football team first name of the whole town here before it was named real biona Royal biona from Alonso the 9th as Shan was saying the uh I mean
Before we had the communal of Santiago um now we’re going to go into the church and we can talk a bit more about the history because biona has a lot to do with the history of the pilgrimage but we before we had uh the commun of Santiago we we have all the
Pagan rituals that sha is mentioning the the the people were always fascinated by the sun with the sun setting where where did the sun go and hence as the Romans coined they people would go to the end of the world cabala in search of where the sun where
The sun sets so yeah so there’s a lot of tradition pre date the com of Santiago so the scallop shell has significance in that context as well cuz you’ve got the scallop shell is also related to the Sun and fertility and Pagan rituals such a historic way and you know
They used to be the land end there like we both mentioned they go all the way to the end of the Earth see there’s another marker there and we’re going to continue right all the way to the the Santa Maria but I want to show you here so that tile was installed right
Right no Mark that’s right cuz all the Caminos are heading to Santiago so they so get a screen the right way now screenshot of that one they tiled that one right the ways pointing cuz all these grooves of like a scallop shell are like leading the ways all the different ways to
Santiago so let’s go through here now and now the sun’s come out brilliant So here we’ll go around there’s another marker even there so it’s quite you can even do it self-guided of course good with a guide it says 130. 096 that’s where we are now you can get the that’s the 130 km see there so what that means cuz it’s the threee
Decimal points it means that we are 130 km and 96 m Santiago compostella that’s why it’s to three decimal points it’s kilometers and meters so apologies to our American viewers today uh so we’re uh in Spain so we we deal with the the metric the kilometer rather than
Miles so Kathy is saying are we going to see the credentials yes you will we have our credentials here we I got ones from the biona tourism office and we’re going to show you and we’re going to get a stamp in here with the priest so that’s
Something special we wanted to do with you guys virtually so we’ll take a quick look at this one as well so this little church here what’s the name of this one Mark what we’re in um Santa liberata Square so you know at the entrance to
The old town so this is the they call it a chapel but you can see it’s huge well I call it a church so it says Santa liberata church and it’s a homage so it was built in about 6 1895 so 17th century uh so it’s a homage to their
Their nine sisters that um that were martyred so they were uh they were killed by the Romans during the Roman period uh because they didn’t renounce the Catholic faith and in fact one of the sisters liberata was actually crucified so this is a homage to all of the sisters that
Died beautiful called Granite architecture again and we’ll take a peek inside we got to get into the church cuz we’ve got the father Manuel waiting for us but look at that peaceful beautiful get your screenshot there of the Altar and we will head into the next one into Santa Maria beautiful detail in
The doors what you can’t see very clearly above the altar is Santiago the Apostle on Horseback yeah I can get the big image right at the top so there there’s two typical images of Santiago uh as a pilgrim with with his walking gear and his walking stick and
Then there’s the other image of Santiago the mo Slayer uh so on Horseback with his sword uh that intervened in key moments and the key battles between the Christians and the Moors as Spain um was uh came with these different historical periods between being a Christian with
The Christian kings that was the big impetus to promote the commun of Santiago and many of the Moors um that controlled southern Spain or or or Central Spain and and incursions between the two in in Invasions and conflicts over the centuries yeah beautiful isn’t another nice so many chapels and
Churches along the way and here right next to together we’ve got two in biona okay we want to get to the church now cuz that 6:30 start the rosary and then 7:00 is the is mass so we don’t want to disturb them with mass oh you’re more than welcome and
We’re going to do a walk still it’s not ended we’re going to get a stamp on our on our credentials and we’re going to take a walk all the way around the parador that you saw there so we’re going to stick on longer than planned but this is the thing with these virtual
Things are it always happens a little bit longer I like to to show you as much as I can so now what we looking at here Mark so we’re looking at Santa Maria Church which is a very old church so it’s dates back again to the 13th
Century and you can see from its main principal facade uh it’s Ro Romanesque design um and it’s got a lot of history associated with the commun of Santiago being again from the 13th century when when the commin started taking off the French way started taking off in that
Period and so the stonemasons have even left on the pillars some of the symbolic iconic images of the Santiago the scallop shell so originally on on the pillar work inside and of course you got the images again of Santiago the Apostle to the left of the altar there’s a nice
Image of Santiago see that now we get a more panoramic view here take your screenshots there and we’re going to go inside Mark why don’t you go and see inside if he’s there and will come in quickly we’re going to take a peek in and see if the the priest is there Manuel
Manuel you want to go to the main door can be quiet now everyone of course here it shows little diagrams of the church and even all the marks Church Direct before last here look at that and there will be light Don Manuel said he would put the
Lights on for us and he did look at this everyone wow show me your hearts so the symbols were all from the stone masons that did building to this Chapel my alter what do you think everyone yeah waiting okay we’re going to go get a stamp every is that beautiful everyone
Get book look at the detail on this rock balcony I’ll grab it I’m going to show you the the stone and there is a original image of the the scallop shell there for example there’s a lot of the Stow Mason has put his seal there see this
G that’s a cross an iron three-way cross and then you got the Apostle no it’s that now I’ve got here got the pilgrim pper I’m going to put it down here so you can see it everyone there’s the passport so it’s the credentials Del perago and if you open it up there
Mark you see inside you put your name you put all your details you see if you’re walking it or if you’re biking it horsing it even sailing it and there’s disil dis disability Trail as well and then on each page here you see you have to get two stamps a day two stamps
A day so you got the whole thing every day you got to get two stamps see open that up there and show them how big it is yeah so you can see each each page has got potentially room for six six stamps so you can work out the
Capacity a number of pages yeah wow so of people doing it a long way so you would show that at the end and they would give you the compostella he he uh father father Manuel is waiting in his special room oh okay let’s go he’s coming he’s coming
There we don’t want to make him wait any longer let’s do the sign of the cross here preparing for the mass here’s Don Manuel he going to put the lights on this is very special we’re very lucky to be able to have d man will do this for us look at that
Bre he said looks better with light doesn’t it beautiful the heart to everyone we’re right at top of the altar here just about before Mass you everyone’s welcome to come in here and get their stamp and see the beautiful Church see see he’s going to show us the mark of the stone
Masons those are all the stone all the different groups spectac how they put on the light everyone we going to get stand come up even closer but must I see D the detail of the Baro here yes here Sean yeah okay here’s a secret office this is like going in behind
The looks like we a Dan Brown movie English He explaining got in English and in Spanish all the the history of the church here Santa Maria graas is it k said yes see see now he’s asking if would you like me to stamp it for you he said see yes
Yes he’s asking where are we going to start the Camino to from here which we said yes we’re going to have a stamp right on the first page here and he wants to put the date in so that that’s another thing to remember that when you
Do get your stamp your two stamps today if you starting gfia by Honor or one stamp that there each stamp is dated because the pilgrim office uh when you present your credential to the pilgrim office that’s what they’ll be checking the dates they’ll be checking that you have the done the Camino you
Know Bonafide in in the the right order and here’s the stamp there we go what a beautiful stamp so that’s what it looks like ladies and gentlemen and when you come on the Camino and get your stamp in the Santa Maria with Don Manuel and then you
Continue on your journey all the way to Santiago you get your stamps as you go he says I don’t understand you guys graus graas I’m saying thank you to Heart everyone so now we’ve got the stamp there now we’re going to go outside he proba learn gal as
See Sean can can we ask him one final question before we say goodbye to himh um and it’s going to it’s about the the pilgrims that already been here this year yeah no yeah so already 140 um pilgrims have arrived here and he credentials already this year
140 oh that’s excellent news he’s saying that’s up so it’s 20 20 pilgrims more or mass 20 more than last year so things are looking even better for the Portuguese Coastal world this year and the reason why we know that is because we have to thank Manuel a lot because he
Keeps meticulous records so it’s all it’s all noted in his books he he keeps a record of so he asks each Pilgrim a lot of information about where you’re from which city you’ve come from your nationality and he writes it all down for his purposes not not for the
Pilgrim’s office purposes but for his purpose he knows how many pilgrims have been to see him well let them do the rosary that was so nice of him wasn’t there otherone show you here quickly he is such a welcoming priest just excellent and a flagship of the Camino you can see
There’s Santiago there as A now we leave an end peace to do the rosary and we will go outside now everyone can hear me Okay to the name of the church is Santa Maria collegate Church ex Colgate Church Santa Maria there’s a detail again he was explaining around the Butresses well that was a a special treat wasn’t it Mark it sure was it’s always nice for me to come back and and talk to the father father Manuel about things that’s great 140 he said already wow that’s a that’s pilgrims have gone into the church then uh normally you
Would go into the church before Mass uh to get your stamp um and to go to mass uh so because that’s when you know the priests will be around normally before before mass and of course after Mass uh you can get him and get the stamp but
Not every Pilgrim would go to mass so say some pilgrims um will just have their stamp from the hotel or a local bar so you don’t have to have a stamp in the church or so show as your credential that you’ve got Mark brought along with him the credential that he’s got here
From one of his last Caminos of course how many Caminos have you done Mark you lost count oh I’ve lost count over the years I’m afraid yes I’ve I’ve done most Caminos either filming them or or walking or biking them look at that everyone that’s a I think that’s a
Portuguese uh Camino from uh from Porto so I’ve done it from Porto three or four times now wow so I know the roots cuz there’s different roots from Porto and you’ve got the compostella as well don’t you you made at the end yes so I can show you the compostella now that we’re
Here and we’re going to continue on I hope you enjoyed this part so for everyone we’re going to go for a nice walk along the parador and the prominade so we’re going to bring this a longer tour today but you’re more than welcome to stay of course cuz when you get to
Santiago and you go to the Pilgrim’s office this is what you they give you now you have to request the holder cuz the holder is very useful especially flying back to Canada uh cuz it protects it for your journey and it’s very welld designed this is a special one this was
The Holy year one so it was a beautiful green color um now you can get this in the pilgrim office or in the or the gift shops around the cathedral um and it cost €2 uh the normal year it’s uh it’s same design scalp shells it’s normally blue color
And then inside is as I store my go hopefully I think Iran have just scored a goal by the way so the local team just scored there looks like the team in red now actually i’ um requested a distance certificate as well so this is the distance certific if because it says
Exactly how many kilometers you’ve walked that was 110 from Rivia no yeah so this is one from the rivid Avia where I live now because I moved from Bion into the mountains of areny and we’re on in a Camino there as well so you can ask for a distant certificate it but it
Costs uh Almighty €3 oh wow so you could be spending 5 um the compostella the issue free so this is your compostella a lot of people say mark mark this isn’t my name markam that’s not my name my name is Mark well it’s because your compostelle is issued in Latin so don’t
Be surprised if your name doesn’t correspond with what they’ve written down I assure you it’s in Latin there we go everyone so you’ll have to do the Camino to get one of those compostella and walk at least 100 kilomet 62 miles one of the many ways that you can choose from but especially
A very special one from here from biona the coastal way and getting on to stats as well getting back to Stats should say last year 2023 was record-breaking of the Camino and there was 446000 plus pilgrims that registered at the tourist office so almost up to
450,000 which is amazing and as well the Portuguese Coastal way it went up by 75% 75% compared to 2022 so almost like 53,000 pilgrims here’s another beautiful marker against the granite Stone so we’ve walked 1 kilometer no Mark yes we haven’t done much today well I’m very impressed with you the statistics you’ve
Given cuz I I was just about to present mine I’ve written them down here on my mobile phone I beat you to it butth you beat me to it so well done for pointing out uh most pilgrims 44% of pilgrims that do the Camino in 2023 uh were Spanish but second uh on
The in the list was a USA so America now is uh has gone up to Second Place ahead of Italy and Germany and Portugal so that’s been a a slight change uh the French way still is the most popular pilgrimage route with 220,000 pilgrims with compell so that’s as Sean says out
Of a total of 446 that’s nearly half of uh pilgrims are doing the French way but that is followed by the Portuguese way about 89,000 and the coast way so they separate the figures now so the coast way is 53,000 we’ll come back to the statistics
Later Sean if you like yeah you can talk and walk we’re going to follow through the streets now this is part of the way here going through the Old Town the old quarter here and this is a beautiful restor building no Mark yeah so th this again uh shows that historically biona
Was an important stopping off point for pilgrims on their on the route to Santiago in fact s s Thomas Becket passed here and stayed at Oya Monastery uh back in 1167 I think it was and passed here and Queen Isabelle as well uh so kings and queens have passed
Through uh doing the Portuguese Camino or the the Portuguese ke Camino so this used to be so this was built as a hospital for poor people and pilgrims back in the 16th century now the style of it it’s now it’s been converted recently so spent a lot of
Money um I should have pointed out where we were the um the Santa Maria church and they spent a lot of money a few years ago re Roofing um because they had a problem with uh filtration so humidity problem they spent sever 100,000 EUR re Roofing the whole of that church immense
The same here they’ve converted this uh ancient Pilgrim Hospital uh to a library now some of the architectural elements are very impressive like this uh like a coat of arms with the dove feature um they’ve got the bell tower there to the left um which are a Gothic in style we
Haven’t got time to go inside into the there’s a a square inside uh you um which has some amazing again ornaments and and and statues of Santiago but on the right we’ve got an amazing cross which again is gothic and it’s a cross from Santiago so now is the library know the
Biblo yes so there there you are put the library stamp and then we’ve got to complete the gothic works so they’ve got the belfrey you’ve got the dove which the Sanctus spiritus which is the again a very relig uh religious Catholic symbol and to go along with with those
Symbols is a a cross which is designed uh it’s a typical design of the Santiago cross from Santiago de compostella in fact I’m wearing a similar cross yeah you’ll see here marks got his fact so when I did a pilgrimage I decided to buy this cross um near platera Square which
Is a silver maker Square which is quite close to the entrance to the cathedral and so there there are a lot of silver Mak silver maker shops so so um Jewelers that where you can buy a a a momentum you know a souvenir a special souvenir that’s a beautiful Rua
V is is one of the streets uh with the colonades with the stone pillars where many of the shops um sell most amazing um jewelry so we’re still on the Cino here but this is where the comminos have the pilgrim make the right decision what’s that decision Mark so well if we point
The camera the other way now we’re coming to the key point which way do we go which do we go left or we do we go right well there’s a spoiler on the on the pipe there no there’s a very faded yellow arrow so uh so that was hard when
You got to remember you’re going north if you miss the yellow arrow and you’re still confused look on the floor there we go so when you go through a lot of towns and cities in Spain and in Galia particularly you can pick up the Camino
On the floors as you go through so they the um this is a typical image that the stone uh was uh mounted on the stone is the bronze plaque the scallop shell plaque now very interestingly um I’ve just been updated that if you go to Santiago to comp
Pastella now couple of weeks ago um the regional government has in conjunction with Santiago de compostella Council have installed on all of the Caminos that arrive in Santiago to the cathedral they’ve installed those um scallop shells on the floors so they’ve mocked all Camino into to the cathedral that’s
Only happened so this this is hot news about the Camino they have finally put the Camino scallop shells on the floor on all the Caminos that run in from the old town into the cathedral so right down this street here we’ve got our town hall now
Of the cono C cono of bayona yes and that was that building was actually built in 1757 by a Mexican called Loreno Corel uh who was a mayor in some obscure Mexican town but he loved to go on his holidays to Baya don’t we all uh so he used to come on
His holidays in the mid 18th century like Baya so much he built his own summer residence which is now being converted to the council offices so that’s a little detour even if you’re walking through the old qu you can go there it’s not on the Camino but it’s
Right through the little old quarter now this is the actual Road of the Camino right through the old town of see there’s another marker there you can what Mark was saying all the symbols through Road and of course as soon as you come into the town all the bars are appear
And all the signs trying to encourage you to stop for your um for your lunch so that bar on the left is very popular Pilgrim stopping point to refuel have a drink and a and a meal on the weekends here in Bayon and as well on the
Festival times we just had a big Festival the most important festival called arada the arrival of Laina going to see the replica down at the Port there so everyone we’re going to go way over time here we said 1 hour we’re going to do a long one and go all the
Way down and show you all the streets so usually all these are all set up during the arada with stalls all wood stalls with having chesa sausages all the wine and then the weekends you’ve got all bars for Tapas and everything so quite Lively throughout all these streets of the old
Town Debbie was Hing here joined uh late but saw most of the tour thank you for the church and the priests for lovely nice to have you back oh thank you everyby thanks for joining in and we’re going to go over time as well and you can always see this on replay too
Whoever needs to go but we’re going to be showing you things live now right down at the Port so we’re going to be going right now we’re still on the Camino the coastal way through the old part of town and then we’re going to show you the point where you would
Continue to go out of biona and continue all the way up to the next Villages what we’re going to do is take another detour off the Camino and show you the promise had down at the bottom there on a nice blue sky day now red fog in the
Morning and here’s a museum isn’t it Mark of the ca navigation isn’t it yeah we’ve got the GRS to the navigation Museum so the museum tells you all about the fascinating history as as as Shan says biona has a lot of history associated with the sea sea fa farers
Sailors and um so there’s a lot of exhibits about its sailing tradition and of course it’s fishing industry this one’s for sale there we go nice Stone galaan House okay let’s continue our little walk so the whole village here like I say after they decided to leave the
Fortress walls cuz they felt very confined in the middle in the Middle Ages and they gradually moved on to land as they called it and made the whole village and span it throughout here and of course fishing being an important way of life for them here in this
Village so it was more a fishing Village than it was a nautical club or nautical Village always having something to do with the sea either working and fishing on it or sailing and now we’ve got another nice building here all the granite houses so the Camino would continue all
The way up that street there wouldn’t it Mark yes and again we got the scallop shells on the floor the bronze Plax that we can follow we head out of the Old Town out of biona and he has a nice little Fountain as well yeah when I used to live in Bor
Shan this is where I used to get my water from from there there’s a lot of fountains in uh in biona so if you’re a pilgrim yeah there’s plenty of places to top up with water now the water is very fresh and pure because it comes from the streams and the
Mountains um so it hasn’t got any chlorine in so it tastes delicious so a lot of the local residents like myself I used to be a local resident here we’d fill up our water bottles at the numerous fountains that and many of them are very attractive and historic
Features in their own right they’ve been here for a very long time nice just stop after you’ve been tired of Theo depending on what time of the year if it’s hot sunny day have a nice big bottle of water and continue on up there
We get a little rest up here and he do analyze the cancel does analyze the water quality from time to time so if the analysis failed then there would be an X so on the Camino again it’s normally safe to drink from The Fountains unless they’ve got an X or
There’s the word uh no portab not poort portable so they’ll be clearly stated cuz there is some controls over water quality so here one last look at the street that goes up and you see we’ve got our marker and you would follow now we’re going to go off the Camino and show you
The views of the bay here and show you lapinta a replica of lapinta a Caravel ship that crossed all the way to the waters after discovering the Americas they came all the way here in 1493 arrived in this little town so when we were talking about history before
About all the taxs and all the different people that have visited here the phocians the Romans the kelum before that and then we’ve had later on in the mid of Ages an important Discovery Port where the first word of the discovery the mariscus came in here so now we’re going to cross
Over so they’ve got a nice long prominade oh you’re more than welcome very said we’re covering a lot of detail yes we’ve got other episodes that we’ve done in the past where we did about the arada which is the the Festival of the the arrival of the pinza so you can take
That look at that on the rewind in our Channel there so now we’re at a beautiful prominade you see all these nice Gallery balcony style houses and then we’ve got as well our lonka which is the auction house for the fish so this is the fishing no Mark yeah so if you
Fancy getting up at 5: in the morning if you do happen to be in bayana one day uh doing your Camino then this is a place to go uh because it will be a thriving full of stands and full of fishermen selling their their local catch or local
Restaurant owners will all be here trying to get the best deal of the day to to so they can supply their restaurants but they’ve just started an initiative very recently where they trying to encourage the uh public especially a lot of people in byor that are here to consume more fish
As well well they don’t need much uh persuading here I don’t think very fresh but anyway they’re trying to encourage the their local population to come here and buy their fish as well so you don’t have to go to your Supermarket if you’re a Joe public uh you can go here and buy
The fish just as well and they’ll treat you just as well obviously they have their favored clients like the big restaurant owners that buy a lot of catch but you can come here and and and your your your lunch here as well no problem yeah that’s good cuz now they
Allow it for general public before it was just all restaurants like Mark was saying you had to go to auction but now you can go in there and get razor clams now I’m on to my food razor clams you can get all the the even the scallops
And all what else we got here we’ve got octopus everything so you can’t go wrong so that’s it behind us there so it’s like a uh it’s like a corporation of all fishermen marinos called the kofia the pescadores is called anun so they are like a also Proprietors that do fishing
And then they sell together and put it all on display so that’s where to get it now we’re get on to history again here we’ve got the important man Alonso the 9th he was the one that named biona as real biona and here’s a monument of them
Right in our roundabout when you come in here done by Juan Oliva in 2001 it’s actually two ,000 kilos and see it shows him there pointing down to the ground saying I declare this real bayona Bona Royal biona there he is there and he did was a big benefactor of this Village and
Did a lot for the the all the port the rights of the shipping and trade so there’s Alonso the 9 a very loved King lots of Kings have been here and done a lot for this Village cuz up until the 16th century is one of the most important Spanish ports there he is
There and our roundabout so now continuing on we want to show you get a little bit closer to the beautiful castle oh I’m in the bike lane Fortress which used to have part of a castle now it doesn’t cuz it was destroyed but here’s only part of the
Where the small fishing boats there you see just this is the fishing port really here all these ones all along here the colorful ones and then there’s a fairy terminal that you would go to the fairies over to these islands the SE is Islands uh Tino is asking here do you
Have to light a candle oh in the church you can light a candle yes they have the the candles that you can light and give an offering there another thing there yes you could see a bunch of them lit when we went out but here’s all the
Fishing ports used to be more fishing before but then turned into what we see behind the yacht part being very important very important here sailing and we’re going to go around to the Royal yacht club which is right that building right over there that you see
Is a very open to this the bay and here we’ve got another Monument to the fishermen dedicated to the marinos homage of the fisherman here done in 2004 it shows them there with his Wellies on against the the sea so if anyone has any questions for
Me or for Mark go right ahead we’re going to keep rolling and walking along and showing you by now we’re getting on the other side so we walked through the streets of the old quarter and then now we’re along the parallel as well to the where they’ve
Got all the prominet where it’s got all Terrace for having an ice cream or having a a meal that building there is a beautiful one no what’s the name of that one Mark yeah it’s now a hotel called paff DEA PA paff is a giian word for
Manor house so it was originally built in 1768 but by four the dean of the Cathedral of Santiago oh wow again another person that like coming here for this summer holidays spend more time eating fish and enjoying these wonderful views that you we’re having today watch don’t tell everyone to come here the
Real estate’s going to go up even higher than it is no Mark yes and that’s as well a hotel isn’t it yes nothing converted to a very small like a boutique uh hotel which is uh it’s popular with pilgrims many my many of my clients um like staying here cuz it’s
Got a fantastic restaurant hasn’t it Sean yeah meno we enjoy eating there Taverna Mena good Tapas and good seafood the razor clams from this area are to die for and there’s a stone here in the M middle that’s the marking of the arrival of the pin is and it’s a
Monument yeah again another homage to its uh this glorious historical past it’s the front side of the museum the navigation see there you can see the carving of laint there we’re not going to cross around there cuz we’re going to go right along to the Fort stay with
Us okay it’s nice Sunday for Theo be on the cycle yeah I’m going to go back on the normal walking path so we got all the flags here from all over the world but it is a good place to stay while you wanting to explore Galia you
Can take a day trip out to the islands there either on a private boat or the ferry go for the market a day for seeing all the the auction and buying some seafood and then trying from all these restaurants and the wine crunches Within Reach Santiago is even with reach so
Even on a short break not on the Camino you could either enjoy just a short stay here and a lot of people when they do the Cino they usually stay here a couple nights know of them up for two nights not just one I think that’s a good idea
Um that you can start off your Camino in a a more uh relaxed fashion preparing preparing for the walk and what better place to start and to have a a day exploring by Honor and it’s uh shellfish and seafood running into people we know of course here in the yeah
Now here we’ve got you see I’m going to come a little bit closer so you can see the Pinta there’s another one I’m going to add on as well cuz we did when we were on hego before we did a virtual tour of on top going inside La Pinta
Boat so we went inside there that was at the time of the festival that was last year but I have a rewind of that on on our YouTube page you can check that out there it is there we’re going to get a good angle from over there on the beach you’ll be able
To see it but you walk it’s a museum as well you get a ticket to go in there and you walk all the way along the plank all the way to it you can visit it it’s actually built to size so you leave on the little ship there they crossed
Atlantic and there was 24 men inside indirect opening times see and the pric is and now you can see it right there amongst all the the sailboats so there’s 24 men aboard that and it was on March 1st 1493 they came into the Bay of biona and
They arrived right in here to the beach here ABA and they brought the first word of the discovery of the Americas so the discovery of Americas was on October in 1492 they saw one of the islands in the Bahamas there MAA I think it is MAA and
They actually was Rodrigo the Triano San sailormen that was right on the Mast and looked and said I see land and then they came back their Journey all the way back here and you remember that you saw that one s on the Pinta the one we did yeah
Great and they came all the way back here and Laina being a smaller boat faster boat more for Speed it arrived before the other why I say the other there’s only one that arrived because the Santa Maria that Christopher Columbus was on on Christmas Day it actually sank right near taiti
Hii they hit a rock there and it sunk so he got on to L and came back on L and arrived all the way down to where they left from in Palos the frona in the South so look at the beautiful beach here they arrive right in here and they
Do a reenactment every year they just had it l the Rival It’s a drama actors come here and they go on their boat and they do all the reenactment of the Rival with like Queen Isabel here they will they give the crown to Queen Isabelle it’s beautiful it’s a very important
Festival that they do every year on the first weekend of March cuz it was the 1st of March and it’s an international touristic interest here and so lots of people come thousands of people come to biona to enjoy this weekend this historic moment in history and we’ll get another angle of it from
Up here and there’s another angle as well so you’ve seen biona from all different angles today we’ve showed them haven’t we yeah and now we’re getting into the other reason why people come to bayana it’s beaches many of which have got the the blue flag status for the
Cleaniness the cleanliness of the waters that are uncontaminated and the facilities that they’ve got uh to supply the the beaches and I’m sure’s going to say a few words about the yacht club The Royal Yacht Club we can also see the tower so it’s actually not a bad place here to to
Point out the Tower of to The Fortress cu the Fortress originally dates back yeah it’s been there for thousands of years but then there’s been a lot of additions like the turrets and the towers many of them are 15th century editions so this is the tower Tor de the
Clock tower don’t see any clock anymore in fact there used to be a bell tower there cuz that uh they used to ring the bell there as a a warning if there was any ships foreign ships or any Invaders off the the coast so it had a again as
Part of the fortification its purpose um it was also used as a dungeon as well we’ll come back to that yeah let’s continue on there let’s get closer up so the beaches we’ve got all around the bay here we’ve got another one we’re going to pass by cuz we’re going to take
The the seaw wall Walk we’re going to walk about half of it so you can see the whole seaw wall how long is it more or less the whole walk yeah so the the the walk is um you can do in about half an hour so 3 km but it’s it’s a level
Walking distance so there’s no no climbing or anything it’s just going around following the shoreline all the way so it’s a great again a great resource a great feature for biona well worth doing uh the walk around the hole of the outer wall of the Fortress Yeah I’m going to zoom in here
This is usually the shot of laint there so you believe 24 men sailed across on that boat the other Boats were a different types the laa and the Santa Maria were larger they were karakas so they had like 30 one 26 and one 32 this is the
Smallest but built a scale like I said a m Museum in it you can see inside so that’s another thing to do when you’re hearing by Y and they they say when Captain Pinson came in with the about uh Spreading the News of the discovery of the
Americas that he brought with him three Indians now the many of the local residents have told me that they believe that one of the Indians was buried very close within the Fortress close to the original Clock Tower the other two Indians are not sure where they were
Buried but they think it was where we were in the grounds to the Santa Maria church so here I’m going to show as well there’s a diagram that shows where their path that they went they went they left on August and they went all the way from 1942 from paloa
Frona they went all the way they went all the way through and then they came back and it was through the Thor islands and they came all the way first to bayona and then they went back down to lisbin and all the way down to paa frona
Again so the replica was actually built down there in 1993 this is a nice tile that was added in here to show and now on the other side I’m going to show you what was a well it still is the Well this well is where they would fill all the barrels of water to make their Journey Back Down the APO of frona Shame about the graffiti let’s go and they used to bring all the water from here the poada so they would fill up all the water there and continue their Journey
Back down to par the fra so now we’re going to continue but you can look back at my rewind there look do a search in the YouTube channel and we’ve got one we did Zar and we explained all about this too so much to see here now we’ve got
The nice park here as well all the information that you need here is right from the tourist off Office right there you want to speak to them in there and they’ll help you with any information of where to eat where to stay and and you can get your credentials there as
Well and right in the park here beautiful park around with all the the plain trees there they’ve been pruned back they all be with leaves and branches later on and very good for in sunny days in the summer to get some shade so if anyone has any question
Question go to have we’re going to go to the seaw wall walk a little bit and then we’re going to say our goodbyes with some nice views out there and there’s actually even a little like replica of what the fort used to be like of how the
Huts the circular Huts from the pre- Romanesque times so the Kels the first inhabitants they say of this peninsula so there’s the tower you’re explaining there Mar NOA yes so now this is a beautiful place to stay when you come here a parador biona within the walls of the
Fortress there it even says from the 10th to the 17th it’s all in different phases and all different Towers throughout yeah 3 km 3 km yeah that’s around the along the wall we’re going to do the one down below so it’s just a little bit less but beautiful
Walk and you’ll be able to to see where we were we’ve got our views from at the start from Virgin the Rocko will’ll be able to see that in the distance so done a little bit of a walk to the Village of biona there’s a nice photo there for you
Guys so getting on as well to the yacht club you’re were explaining something there they have a important rata here don’t they yes yes so very important um for the yachting sailing competitions there’s one the prince of aurus that’s actually our King now Phillip there’s one in commemorating
With him they do all the a big verata here in the king and all the royalty come here so that’s the important yach club for sailing throughout very exclusive because they they have even have their own facilities like they have their own restaurant cuz I know the chef that that runs the
Restaurant there very very good very good King King philli which was Prince Philip before he’s the honorary chairman of the club as well so it just shows you the importance of this little town for royalty as well there’s one of the first skates and if we continued all the way
Up here you get to the parador you get to the beautiful hotel you can walk around the walls or you can go what we’re going to do which is right along the seaw wall oh thank you Margaret yes glad you enjoyed our our tour we’re still going
To do a little bit more and we’re way over our time but more than an honor to be able to show you biona and I’m happy that the weather in the long run stayed nice for us cuz we were floating in the Mist at first weren’t we
Yes now we got blue sky here’s another nice little beach this is Bara beacha another tiny small one there see there’s the name another blue flag Beach as Mark was saying and it’s a beach that trip advisor uh has said is one of the very best beaches in the whole of Spain this
Beach this it’s a small Beach but there you are yeah highly rated by Trip Advisor wow so we’ve got the sand here is all being Granite very it’s not so fine it’ll stick to you but it’s fine enough where it’s soft and excellent to sit on
The beach if you’re a beach person to have a day relaxing or having a dip in the nice cold Atlantic and for exercise you’ve got this walk around here and walking all the way through the village so if you wanted to do more kilometers after your
Camino day you could do this as well no punish a glutton for punishment no maybe after a a siesta maybe a siesta first um saying I remember your tour of the F the donon on heo yeah that was on the other side you could see that from here
That was on the other side of vgo bay but you can actually get a view from here oh and no donations this is a free tour here and we don’t want any donations at all we wanted to show you biona so thank you Advent and but you
Got to think of plan your trip put a review in our website there we’re going to send Links at the end so please stay to the end we’re going to send in and we’ve got a a different tours here there’s Tian in the background you don’t
Know if you’ve been with me on hego you’re with my son Tian who’s another virtual guide and food guide with Mark and I and uh he’s going to send some links there you can send the link there for like T I’m running out of breath look at that
I’m not used to the Pino too much eatting and we’re going to be doing a few more tours coming up of different areas here in Galia Bion is a spot where we wanted to showcase cuz having the opportunity with the priest on manwel to be able to get the
Stamp there with him that was magical well I know I know you’re coming out to uh in may now uh to my part of the my new part of the world now REO the land of re or rivadavia an aren I understand I’m not around I’m on the Camino then
Unfortunately otherwise I’ll be joining you we’ll have to do a wine tour there you and I virtually of course and take them around the REO region too there’s so much to see in Galia and that’s even reachable from here if you were to stay here you could do it’s an hour away
Inland you could do a day trip to the rero wine country and taste all the wines there oh thank you very much and I’m glad you enjoyed and you can check out as well TI can send a few links in there whoever needs to go we’ll send
Their links in so thanks to biona there the Town Council that helped us with getting it to the top of the versin the terica and all the promotion that we’ve been doing in collab ation with them and we’ve got a biona destination guide you can check in our
Website and you can click into the link in our website and you can leave a review for this tour that would be great whoever wants to walk with us more we got this peaceful walk we might get a bit of a sunset I’m going to get a drink of water here Wet My
Whistle oh more than welcome glad you enjoyed and you have to put Bon on your bucket list and the coastal Camino Now’s the Time if you have any questions go right ahead we’re going to walk with you here show you different angles different views of biona thank you Barbara it is Lovely isn’t
It and we’ll see all the big Mega Yachts down here in the summertime very protected Bay and the colors now are really popping out with the sun coming down so we’re walking right along the seaside wall That’s called the Monte the boy P Monte meaning the hill boy is an
Ox even say to be shaped like an ox and as well as known as monal Royal Hill see there’s all the walls so you can walk along the upper walls there or you can come along this lower part the seaw wall and around this corner here we’ll see
Again out to the front part of the bay coming to another Tower Straight Ahead a smaller Tower than the the clock tower um it’s called the TF TFA Tower wait wa it has some resemblance again it’s a similar again an extension similar period 15th century extension
Again um it was also used you can’t see the other side but it was also used as a dungeon as well yeah look at those little small slits in in the windows and look at that little window oh thank you Catherine I’m glad you enjoyed okay and then now around here so
We haven’t got time to to go up along the pier it looks quite busy there we’re going to have to do another one here Mark time goes by fast so these now are used for natural sea pools When the tide comes up but this used to be another
Purpose before this used to be for all the crustations the lobsters and all the even other spider crabs they used to put them in these like tanks to to store them in the fresh sea water and then they would bring them up into the restaurants and all that and
Cook them up so they used to be called FAS and now it’s almost made like a open air Spa thermal bath you see there so of course now we’re still just coming start of spring but now when the spring colors come and the weather starts getting warmer the water does heat
Up and you can enjoy a nice bath in there finally we can see in the distance before Monte fero which we haven’t mentioned either you can see the muscle bed platforms just no the shadows I can zoom in there yeah we’ve done episodes before of the muscle production in Galia
There’s some right here you see those platforms those are all sustainable muscle Farms so these bays are so rich in in minerals and all the microclimate it has the Plankton it’s an excellent place for even harvesting harvesting all the the shellfish and plus all the wild you’re in a seafood Heaven here
Aren’t we we’re we’re lucky Mark and I of Scottish Heritage yes CU what we you can’t see below what where between the high tide and the low tide zone is where the goose neck Barnacles live so we can’t see there’re another local delicacy in biona yeah they’re like the
Black part of the rock there but they’re good in the the right down here amongst all the muscle shells you can get all the the gooseneck Barnacles of peris delicacy so let’s keep a little walk you see these views we’re going to get up to those waves now it’s just a nice relaxed
Walk any questions you guys may have but Mark and I how long have we known each other now at least uh 10 years I would say and we walk a long well because we’re of Scottish Heritage my parents being from Scotland and your parents as well me born and raised in Canada you
Were born in Bristol now I was Bor was actually born in Glasgow cuz I am actually Scots so you’re Scottish but uh I I haven’t got my Scottish accent I haven’t brought my Scottish accent today I brought my educat you can put it on Bristol Bristol London accent today for
You but we of course love it here and the weather the sea food the walking it’s just a a good quality of life isn’t it yeah very good quality of life here um all this fresh air we’re facing 5,000 km of open ocean no contamination uh it’s nice and calm the
Sea it’s nice and quiet now turn it around there yeah but we’re a good and we’ve enjoyed doing tours together and then promoting this area to all the people coming from overseas and loving it like what we do all of biona Galia and this whole area so there again you
Can see that this is the the sea is islands of paradise and you can see the walk that we’re going to continue along now you can see part of the the palace part of the parador that used to be of the the vi counts of gondomar from the
18th century parts of it and then the parador bought it over and made it into a parador hotel in 1966 parador in Spanish means in so they were made into these historic accommodations and to take so they won’t get all ruined isn’t that beautiful look at that shot there with
The light behind see if I can even get it out there look at that oh you’re more than welcome Barbara thank you s hope you enjoyed the tour now you can log in the links there t and you can send some of the links there for
Our web page so they can put their review in and then as well Mark has a web page there you can see what he does and for his all his Camino Wine Tours and everything else you can send that link and it’s all in the description as
Well of this tour you’ll be able to see that and there’s of uh the Town Council of biona if you need any information and of course our destination guide our website there is eatand Walkabout outcom that’s what we enjoy doing eating and walking about like this either virtually or in
Person so we got a few fishermen out small fishing vessels out at the moment oh yeah let’s point that out so I I assume they’re catching fish so some wild fish like seab bass wouldn’t be shellfish be it could be squid the small squid let’s zoom in
There yeah you can see they’re out there some of them going for squid they can have a jig there or using it’s all Artisan type fishing in these boats as well and they’ll have lines out for the sea bass any other questions right ahead I’m keep
Walking along so I want to get around this Bend here we’re not going to walk the whole almost 3 kilometers but we’re going to show you where we started so you can get an idea look at the colors now as well even the sun coming down the clouds are
Starting to get all puffy there and pinkness coming in that t is going to send you some of our links there for everyone and this is a free trip so no donations no nothing it’s a free tour collaboration with bayona so everyone enjoy we look forward to your reviews and your comments about
What you think about piona if you think you’d add it to your bucket list if it’s something that would interest you to come and join either doing the Camino and if you want a a guide that’ll show you around either Mark and I will be glad to show you
Now we’re coming up to another little Monument here in omark about the Virgin Carmen I think it is no Carmen yeah Carmen the patron saint of the sea farers wow look at the waves crashing in up here too the other day this was just when we do get the Atlantic storms in
Here it’ll crash in and where we where Angie and I live and here over there that’s all the peninsula morath on the other side so you can actually see it from here he’s getting nearest to us now yeah is he looking for a he’s looking for octopus could be octopus no
Look at those wellb built walls The Fortress there standing for centuries now we’re coming up to a little monument that was built by a man here dedicating Carmen no yes quite a display with all the scallop shells it was originally a established by a local resident from biona a retired
Sailor who spent his spare time etching things into the the rocks and uh it’s been Consolidated over the years and turned into something very special yeah wow it’s beautiful there it is there the protector of the the marineros of the fishermen virgin Carmen the time of year when they do the
Procession of the boats with all the flowers on the boats honking their horns it’s another beautiful time in July one more chance for a photo there and now we’re going to continue around the corner and you’re going to get a glimpse the top of that hill over there
Monte Ferro that’s a tower now a fort as well a stone monument which again is another homage to all the poor sea farers fishermen Sailors that have died at Sea which I’m afraid even today today uh every year we do have a lot of people that do die trying to catch
Fish shellfish or out in the open Seas it’s a very dangerous open Atlantic Ocean at times another one of the towers the captive Prince Tower which surprise surprise was also used as a dungeon yeah that’s what the captive R stle they in a little replica down here and this one
Here as well these stone walls that’s another one of these Lobster tanks that they used to use a way back start of the 1900s called taras but they stopped using these all throughout this Rocky Coast because uh you can see the waves crashing in so when it’s was high tide and the waves
Would come it would wash them out to sea again so they would lose a lot and they made another replica a little capta prince Tower there so this used to be used way back and you can get fresh crustations from here not only lobster I say at some point they could be stored
There like 4,000 kilos inside there in the tanks so this is a spot on a clear day to get a sunset spectacular anyone still there let’s see your hearts look at those waves coming in that might be a sign that the weather is changing got a question here from
Vera Mar say so the Camino is shared by Walkers and bicyclists or is it the bike pass separate that’s a good question because um there are sections of the Camino where yes everyone is mixed on the same Camino um now they have tried to improve the Camino and its safety over the years
So some stretches yet they try and encourage the bik cyclist to to use a separate route that’s easier cuz as you can imagine some of the terrain could be very challenging so generally the especially if ay has got a mountain bike style tars they can follow the same Camino so you
Do have to watch out actually cuz uh they you don’t often get warning if there’s a cyclist behind you they don’t always use a bale so you have to have your wits on you in the Camino as well even and be careful because it can be an
Can be an issue being being a cyclist uh you even see horses and some people even do the Camino in in their Yachts would you believe you can you a compostella doing it what a bit of walking involved even if you do have a yacht cuz that will get
You to the cifin coast but you still have to walk to Santiago yeah that’s the maritime route because you know they say St James is remains were brought back here to his land where he had a lot of people preaching so in year 44 his disciples
Brought him at the St on a a stone boat this is a legend brought him all the way back here and then his remains were found near near ARA ARA Flavia 813 by hermit poo and then brought all the way to where Santiago is now the cathedral so basically there’s a route
Called the maritine route where you can follow where they say that they brought in his body and then you walk the last portion so you see that Hillway over there everyone yeah aren’t they beautiful views Justina right there I’m going to zoom in we’re going to see it a bit
Closer that’s where we were I believe we just walked all the way around and showed you all the Bion how was that for a 36 T of biona we we certainly have to cover a lot of distance today yeah but we we calculated 1 hour it was 2 hours
Yes we’ve done it in under two hours so Le we can say that under two hours and now we even show you here take a little little walk to this little sign and there is a path there though some paths only some portions where they have a bike path and yeah the Walkers
Will share that too but then through the trails there’s not a dedicated one so here’s the the biona the name again b i b a i o n a so that’s the galatian way and the Spanish will be with a Y by Yona and it’s explaining all about the sea
Here and all about the area and it’s a beautiful sea isn’t the sky beautiful oh yeah no we went for a big walk we said hey let’s do the whole thing why not we want to show you by own an it’s True Colors now here what we’ve got is they’ve done a
Little mockup really well what it would look like cuz this used to be all have you guys when someone mentioned they were on the fcho tour we actually saw one of the oldest Celtic Hill forts in Galia talking about 8th Century BC well here was 2 Century BC so it was later on
It was the end of the Kels start of the Romans but this is to make it look like it’s like a simulation really of of what the Huts the circular Huts would look like when you find them so that’s what they did up here CU they’re called castros Hill
Forts yeah we’ve gone quite far and and look at these waves still coming in just a a beautiful night a change in in in the weather no Mark you’re saying well we we we’re certainly the first to to get word of any changes in the weather but it certainly looks as though there
May be a change over the next few days if the waves are coming coming in that like they are now it’s still relatively calm no wind no Breeze or anything at the moment but um it may be a sign that in the next few days some of the uh
Depressions the weather fronts May sweep in and hit the coast yeah we’re a magnet for having different currents and it comes right in here all the Atlantic storm so but it adds to the excitement of this area so there we are again right where we started way over
There there you can see the virsion of the Rock at the very top and with the waves here so we’re going to say our goodbye here turn it around say goodbye with all the in the background been a pleasure been a pleasure hope you enjoyed don’t forget
To oh let’s get this right there we go we hope you enjoyed your time with Mark and I the walk on the Camino here and Beyond in biona beautiful town you have to put on your list to come and see it yourself virtually is a great tool to
Show you it and but you got to come here with us so we can show you you can taste the food and you can meet the people and really get the whole feel of it know so thanks everyone bye-bye and see you soon all the very best don’t forget to check
Our website there and Mark’s website and as well all about biona so take care everyone bye-bye even Bronto loved every minute of it oh thank you very much and we’re going to walk silently now around to the end if anyone has any questions go right ahead I’m going to continue it cuz we’ve
Got to go this way more than welcome to I’m glad you enjoyed you can leave a review there on our website you can register and eat and walk about there I’m not sure if T and shared the links there but you can go in the description you can find out as
Well thank you Margaret thank you and anyone that hasn’t subscribed to our Channel subscribe cuz we’re going to get a lot more stuff coming up soon and behind there is the sun whoever wants to get their cloudy Sunset postcard go right ahead with the waves dramatic clouds aren’t they the maceral sky
More than welcome still thank you for joining okay signing off from biona bye-bye ASA Pronto good evening
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Than you so so much!
More than welcome! I hope you enjoyed!
Fascinating tour. Sean and Mark work so well together. I am always amazed what a beautiful part of the world this is. Was surprised tour lasted over two hours. I could’ve watched for another two hours but you guys would’ve had to have a big break to quench your thirst and rest your feet. Thank you for all history and geography
I love it already and you haven’t started walking yet!
Absolutely loved this!
Gracias por este hermoso paseo!