Galicia trip keeps getting put off!!
 

I have been planning a 10 day trip from Madrid through leon, asturias, galicia, and Tui, full circle for months now. Due to kids, work, etc. It keeps getting put back. We now have 10 days in the first half of december. Should we take the trip then or save it until June or September? Maybe see xmas markets instead. I am worried about the weater in the region at that time and exactly how "dead" it will be. It is hard, because i have looked so forward to this trip, but don't want it to be a disaster. Also this is my hubby's first trip to europe.

Probably this is irrelevant (and butting in?) but at least it brings your question back up to the top - - but Galicia (and perhaps the southwest of France) is very nearly at the top of my wish list for a (the?) next "Fodorites' trip".

If it were to be of any interest to you at all, April, May, June or September would be the preferred (only possible, actually) time(s) of year for me.

Best wishes,

Rex Bickers
Floyds Knobs, Indiana

You have a longish reply to your other thread. Just click on your name to bring it up.

Unless I am mistaken, she has no other thread on this newest question - - when/whether to re-schedule this trip.

What bugs me about a winter trip is the fact that one has to take heavier clothing: I like to travel light! As I was returning from my last trip to Spain (Jun'04), a lady in front of me in line at the Continental Airlines Check-in in Madrid's Barajas airport looked at my small backpack and asked: Is that all you've got? I tried to explain to her that I had been on a 'Holy Year' Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and that was all I needed.

I can assure you that it will not be 'dead,' especially if you stop at University towns like Santiago and Vigo.

It rains a lot in Galicia in the winter; but you should be able to get some real bargains on places to stay. Another good thing: Galicia is on Spain time where longitudinally it should be in the same time zone as Ireland and Portugal. So, although it won't get light until about 10 AM, the evenings will be longer.
BTW
Tui is in the Province of Pontevedra, one of four that comprise the Autonomous Region of Galicia. So your reference to 'galicia and Tui' is redundant.

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