Gorgeous Galicia

I have a stark warning for anyone who sails to the Galician Rías – there is a very real risk that you may never leave. Now, some would argue this is not a risk but something to be welcomed with open arms.

Simply befriend the locals, set up shop and you’ll pass a very pleasant few decades as a bona fide Galician.

However, if you have a maritime journey to complete in a timely fashion, Galicia’s almost irresistible lure can be dangerous.

We met a couple who had set off from Southern Ireland bound for the Mediterranean two years before. Yet, there they were, entirely content living aboard in the Ría de Arousa, now so friendly with the boatyard owner they were off to his grandson’s christening.

Galicia is not Spain as most people know it, with a different language, landscape and climate to the rest of the arid Iberian Peninsula.

It is Spain’s Celtic corner, its granite mass