Why go to Sada? For one thing, it’s close the big city of A Coruna so you can visit A Coruna without having to stay there. But also there could be some stuff of interest for you in Sada itself. We traveled on a very low budget, so we basically ended up camping with gypsies for a few days. It was a regular campground regulated by the country-wide system, but it seemed to be populated by gypsies who looked like they had been there a while and weren’t planning to leave anytime soon, and why should they as this campground was situated across the road from a rather nice beach. The gypsies were likely well-to-do seeing as how most of them were setup in nicely appointed travel trailers. We had our lowly two-person tent and a rented Renault. We didn’t have a camping stove. We wore Birkenstocks. We stuck out like sore thumbs. But everyone was very friendly or left us alone, probably because they thought we were crazy Germans.

Anyway, in Sada we witnessed a lovely festival, complete with a parade, costumes, and mobs of drunken teenagers. I have no idea what festival it was. We were a little surprised by the whole thing (and the drunken teenagers.) In Sada I ate spaghetti with meat sauce, which would be unremarkable save the fact that I do not eat meat (except fish, but his was beef.) In Sada I was introduced to an unusual but delicious Galician cheese called “Tetilla” which is soft and creamy and, yes, formed into the shape of a life-size female breast. I ate quite a lot of Tetilla on fine Galician bread for several days in a row. Just don’t let the Tetilla sit too long in a hot car or it will turn on you quickly.

I will forever associate Sada with the song “Round Here” by the Black Crows because it was the song blaring out of the campground loudspeaker the night we arrived.