Our floors of the hotel sound like a conservatory today, with everyone practicing to get their fingers back in motion after two days of travel. But there's also time for a walk or so, through streets lined with fine old buildings like this one a few doors away from the hotel.
Pontevedra is full of lovely plazas, too, some with vendors offering chestnuts from cast-iron roasters shaped like locomotives. Nurhan enjoyed some while out for a stroll. 
By late afternoon, everyone is warming up again or taking a shower, then it's off to the Teatro Principal for a short sound-check rehearsal. We make an odd parade for the few blocks to the theatre!
Our concert was #993 in the history of the Sociedad Filarmonica de Pontevedra, which will present its one-thousandth concert later this season! The audience received each work with enthusiasm, drawing an encore from Marc after his performance of Devienne's Flute Concerto No. 7, and two from the orchestra at the end of the second half of the concert.
after the concert. Some members of the orchestra went in search of tapas, others found a great wine cellar/restaurant just up the street from the theatre with an intriguing menu of local specialties.
'Chiparrones' (tiny whole squid) in herbs for Nurhan, an oxen-steak for Calum, scrambled eggs with prawns and kale for Tony, but not quite enough hot pepper for Andras! 
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