I mentioned last time out about the food culture when it comes to socialising in Spain. Nowhere is this reflected better and more obviously than in the festivals that crop up in the small towns and villages around the place. In Britain, a street party of almost any description will be pretty much entirely about alcohol, here with just about the same percentages, it’s about food. And so it was proved in Baiona, a small town 14 kilometres south of Vigo, which was the first landing place of the members of Columbus’s crew who were sent back to announce the discovery of the new world in 1493 and as such it’s perhaps unsurprising that the festival of choice in Baiona on the first weekend of March is Medieval themed, giving an insight into the brighter parts
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