At last the weather improved and we reached a major milestone on our journey, A Coruna. Wendy and Dave had a lovely sunny day exploring A Coruna, an ancient city with wonderful
beaches and busy shops and restaurants, not to mention its most famous building, the Torre
de Hercules lighthouse, built by the Romans and still in use today. Chris
joined us on Saturday evening for his 2 weeks holiday.
Unfortunately, within 2
hours of leaving A Coruna on Sunday we were in fog, using the radar for only
the second time since we left the UK; another day of motoring with no wind and
no sign of the sun until 3 miles of our destination, the village of Corme.
August ended with a sail to Camarinas in on / off rain, but at least we sailed. The crew of Cara Mara were
getting pretty fed up with the weather in this part of Spain!
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| The city hall and grand square in A Coruna, weddings every 40 minutes on the day of our visit. |
1st of Sept, at last a lovely sunny day with
good wind, giving us a wonderful 40 mile sail to Muros; Chris enjoyed it so much
he insisted that we continue sailing almost up the entrance to the marina. On
route we passed one of the most famous headlands of our entire trip, Finisterre.
Wendy and Dave had heard so many good things about the wonderful Spanish Ria’s; arriving in the Ria de Muros in bright sunshine at last we could understand
why.
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| the Torre de Hercules lighthouse |
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| The view of A Coruna from the lighthouse |
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| Picasso spent his teenage years in A Coruna and learnt to paint in his parents flat, now a museum |
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| Chris enjoying his first good sail of the year |
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| Cape Finisterre |
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| Muros marina, like most we have been to in Spain is less than half full in Aug. |
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