Corme 43:15.64N 08:57.78W Sardineiro 42:55.5N 09:13.4W Muros 42:46.66N 09:03.30W Bayona 42:07.47N 08:50.55W
Lotus
Thu 17 Sep 2009 15:09
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Becs and Adrian joined us on the yacht at La Coruna
on Saturday and we set sail for Corme where we arrived very shortly before
nightfall. By the time the boys had messed around anchoring (with many
helpful suggestions from the girls), it was pitch black.
 Next day we departed for Cape Finisterre, the
most westernly point in Europe.
  We hoped to stay in Finisterre itself but bit was
too rough in the anchorage so we spent an interminable time tacking in strong
winds upto a nice anchorage off the beach at Sardineiro. There wasn't much
at Sardinero save two retaurants and a woman walking round with 45lbs
of cabbage on her head - unfortunately no photo, but believe us it was
weird.
 In freshening North easterly winds we romped down
the coast to the Rias with Becs at the helm and catalog man peering over her
shoulder!
 Muros looked like a promising town with narrow
streets lined with old buildings made with huge blocks of granite.
However, everywhere we tried to eat seemed to have dried meat and rock hard
bread on the menu or smelled like the sewers - not a great advert for
tourists. John wanted to go for a pizza or burger but was over ruled, we
went back to the boat for three bean chilli only to find the boat high and
dry. John donned his wetsuit and took to the water like a seal to check
out the keel and rudder on which the boat had been sat for the last hour.
Luckily, no damage to the boat and the lesson has been learned - have lifting
keel, must use it!
The next day the variable winds took us down to
Bayona where Christopher Columbus made landfall on his return to the new
world. Paid a Euro each to walk round a replica of the 'Pinta' - which
took the whole of three minutes.
 We then took a stroll around the medievel walls
before heading off to the supermarche.
 Lunchtime came and once again we had to bring the Bimini out - this time to shelter us from
the rain!
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