08/03/2023
Today I woke up thinking of the time we spent in Galicia back in May of this year. This was my husband’s first time experiencing it and I wanted to give him a little taste of everything, but, truthfully, it was mostly seafood and Albariño wine🤷♀️
Galicia is where I can trace both sides of my family back to. I grew up visiting and spending time here with my cousins, hearing the stories of my ancestors and learning the cultural history of the region which is as abundant as the scallops and oysters are in her rías.
We started in Vigo, Galicia’s most populous city. Roughly 300,000 occupants call it home. That’s “big city living” in Spain’s northwestern autonomous region. This is the port city from which my great-grandparents set sail for the Caribbean about 100 years ago.
Our first night there, he noticed two things: no one really speaks English (luckily for him he had a translator 😜) and how littered it is with Michelin restaurants. We enjoyed an incredible dinner at a little spot called Casa Marco (no Instagram.) See photos 2 and 3 for a snap of a few of the courses. This Michelin star feast ran us all of 100 euro! Wild.
This history here runs deep. The area is believed to have been first inhabited during the Middle Paleolithic period, and takes its name from the Gallaeci, the Celtic people living north of the Douro River (which feeds into the Atlantic in Porto, Portugal) during the last millennium BC.
Over the next few weeks, im going to take you along our journey through the motherland. Stay tuned!
Part one of a few..