Camping and Glamping Muiñeira

It’s a five-minute walk to the nearest beach, and there are further sunny and sandy spots within easy reach: if you can’t decide, take the bike path round the bay to San Vicente Do Grove (10 minutes on two wheels, five by car) and make up your mind enroute. The surrounding town of A Lanzada has various watersports outlets, supermarkets, bars and restaurants (and paintballing, if you’re that way inclined). The O Grove peninsula is a mushroom of land sprouting off Galicia’s north-western coast, a lush land for walking and wildlife spotting. Outside San Vincente Do Grove, paths lead through a handsome green landscape along the cliffs, where birds of prey circle above, the winds spray you with Atlantic salt and little tracks lead down to deserted coves for swimming and rockpooling. This is one part of the Galician Atlantic Islands Maritime-Terrestrial National Park, made up of mainland dunes and cliffs as well as archipelagos out to sea. Head to Sanxeno, 15 minutes away, for boats out to Ons, the largest and closest of the islands and hikes through a pristine landscape of green hills, quiet beaches and sea caves. For a contrast, make the hour-long pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela: others will have travelled further to this UNESCO-protected city, which is the end point on the St James's Way pilgrim route stretching thousands of miles across Europe. Santiago is a lavishly decorative medieval city, whose massive cathedral and tempting traditional cuisine will battle over your body and soul.