Position: ATLANTIC SPAIN AND PORTUGAL Portugal and Spain have lively street art scenes. There is hardly a public space, or public vehicle, that’s not tagged with slashes of black spray paint. Some are covered in the flowing, garishly coloured letters …
Position: 38° 41′ 51” N 9° 11′ 27” W Banksy, the reclusive street artist and practical joker, has dominated the very public art form s/he created for over 30 years. It is unclear if the anonymous Banksy is a man …
Position: 38° 42′ 7” N 09° 10′ 41” W Lisbon’s Lx Factory is a little confusing. It’s billed as an artsy center for creatives and while there’s a bit of that, it seems like it’s mostly tourist shops with cutesy …
Position: 41° 8′ 23” N 8° 36′ 35” W From my walking notes of Porto I remember the following: Incongruous banjo player outside the cathedral. He wasn’t Béla Fleck, but this gentleman playing classical music on an anachronistic five string …
Position: 39°36’17.0 N 09°05′ 07 W Portugal’s west coast isn’t the most welcoming geographically. Much like the west coast of the United States, Portugal has few natural havens for sailors. However, roughly half way between Porto and Lisbon lies Nazaré …
Cabo Fisterra – POSITION: 42° 52.95’N, 09° 16.31’W Finisterre is the end of the earth. Literally. One of the most foreboding points of land in Europe, sailors for centuries have sung shanties and recounted tall tales of its fearsome weather …
Leaning into port tack our starboard (green) navigation light lights up the water. Suddenly it shines more brightly. A blotch moves in the viridescent limelight. Then vanishes. Then reappears, flapping. A seagull, brilliant white in daylight, now reflected with the …
Position: 41° 8′ 23” N 8° 36′ 35” W This is how local kids entertain the tourists in Porto, Portugal. In the UK it’s called ‘tombstoning’ and jumping straight down from bridges is frowned upon there. There are signs that …
Position: 43°22’11″N 8°23’46″W Viveiro and A Coruña are maritime cities on the northwest coast of Spain. Both date back well before the Romans occupied Galicia starting in 137 BCE. Like the Basque Country and Catalonia, Galicia is one of Spain’s …
