Ria de Camarinas

Karinya
Tim And Vicki Schofield, Captain Cal 7 and Jess 4
Sat 19 Jun 2010 16:44
43.07n 09.11w

Hi all

I think the last blog mentioned we leaving the bustle of La Coruna and heading for a few days to a quite anchorage to re group.It was great having Andrew and Lotti, but now we need to get to a normal life. This weekend we relaxing trying to get a normal pattern back rather than waking up at 11pm and going to sleep at 2 am...this includes the kids.

Monday Callum starts grade 3 and Jessica reception. I think getting a routine with them will benefit everyone.

Yesterday we had a great sail from La Coruna and our German friends that we met in the Channel islands joined us. We took a lot of pics of each other sailing which was fun. (just found out Vicki did not load them but loaded the short cut to a removable memory card which our German friends have just left with and we wont see them till ????)When we got in, we anchored and then took the dink into town for dinner. We really wanted some tapas....now small Spanish town tapas is quite different to the Spanish restaurants in the UK. We asked for a plate of each as we could not really decipher the menu. So starting with the norm..paella with crab and lobster I think. Sardines, large non gutted! 5 inch octopus's (octopuses, octopi) complete with their last meal still evident. Long tube shells with a worm like thing in and a few peppers, in salt granules. So when the kids decided that this was not exactly their norm I ordered a fajita con queso, this turned out to be a omelette type thing. So the kids and me (to a degree) settled for bread.

The weather is still not great, early 20's with cloud every now and then. The water is also too cold to swim in but Jess does not seem to mind and has paddled out from the beach up to her neck on numerous occasions.
 
 
Waves crossing Biscay, looks small but this was huge
 
 
Andrew and Lotte happy to be in Spain
 
 
Sun rise on Biscay
 
 
Callum in haeven, the resturant had lots of old weapons on the walls and the waiter got them down for him to play with....never happen in the uk
 
 
Jess and Vic after Biscay
 
 
 
Cal and mom on the dolphin chair before we came into Camarinas
 
 
 
 
Jan our German mate at the Helm under sail....we should have plenty of us in the same pose!