About to depart La Coruna
AJAYA'S CRUISE
Phil & Nikki Hoskins
Sun 28 Sep 2008 18:39
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They say that ships and men (and not forgetting our
good wives these days) rot in port. I don't think we are actually rotting just
yet but its very easy to become too settled and start to become part of the
marina scenery. So it's time to move on once more and head towards Cape
Finnistere and make our way southwards towards Portugal. Our memories of La
Coruna are many and varied - the marina showers and toilets (now
completely blocked as I write this) where the lights go out on the timer
switch leaving you fumbling for a light switch in the dark with wet hands. The
washing machine that doesn't work (did it ever?), the constant comings and
goings of yachts all having crossed Biscay by various routes and having
encountered various weather conditions on the way, the interesting town itself
built on a peninsula with narrow streets with the closed white balcony
facades giving the town a very distinct look.But it's people that make places,
and so we will remember Jan on his Fontaine Pajot Mahe called "CUTS". Jan only
collected the boat new from the factory a week or so ago and was busy fitting
all the extra equipment for his trip to the Med along with his son Daniel
and a friend. We had a couple of interesting evenings together and we hope to
meet up with them in Porto. Other people of note have been our next door
neighbours who have spent the last 4 days trying in vain to unblock the holding
tank on their Bavaria 38. Early in the morning and under cover of darkness
one or the other could be seen (and smelt) prodding and poking around with
limited success. (And we thought we had left the idiosyncrasies of Bavarias
behind us) So when all is said and done La Coruna is a very friendly
comfortable place to be - but there's much to see elsewhere and we need to
move on to escape the gradual onset of the northern winter.
Brrrrrr.
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