Camarinas town is a little disappointing. The older people pass the afternoon, sitting chatting and looking at us strangely, the women on the step of the Gadis Supermercado, the men under the lean-to outside the hotel (that opens at 9).   The marina is good and quite cheap. Three drinks in the local bar is 4 Eur.

Looking aft across the stern at the town  the tips if the wind turbines can be seen  over the horizon, like a glimpse of a cartwheel through a busy dance floor.. in Zetland…maybe…Linda?

No wireless access in town so we can’t update our site.

I spent all day yesterday getting a third reefing line in and changing our outhall. Today is the turn of the halyards to get the better of me.

Couldn’t sleep last night, at 2am I moved to the aft cabin to read (room 202 as it has become known). Flushing the toilet with the light off I was startled to see it light up. Under sail at night we often see phosphorescence (tiny organisms that light up when disturbed). As we use sea water for flushing the toilet the same effect can be seen.

 The mullet jumping around the stern kept me awake even longer. Defenseless without a mullet pistol I began to realize how fortunate I was, awake at 4am cursing mullet rather than cursing cash flow or interest rates. I fell asleep quickly thereafter.

Found a laundry at last yesterday. I thought it was a swimming trunks day but found the miracle underpants at the last minute. Could it be that underpants do the opposite of socks? They always seem to just get in from Narnia just when required. Is it possible that there is some continuous exchange going on at a border post in another dimension like cold war prisoners on a bridge somewhere in the dead of night?

This is the wettest part of Spain, last night it rained for ten minutes. It has been a little cloudy yesterday and today and while there was no wind yesterday and yachts had to motor all the way from Coruna. Today there is a stiff northerly breeze and it is quite cool. It’s raining in La Coruna

Off up town now with computer in hand to see if we can locate an unguarded wireless network.