Trip Update - 17th September 2008 Bayona, Spain
Position: 42:07.20N
08:50.65W Sailing South towards Bayona you see
Cabo Silliero just 3 or so miles to the West of the town, and it really feels
like this is the edge of the Iberian peninsula – beyond it you can’t see any
land as the coastline just drops South in an almost ruler-straight line,
hundreds of miles right down into Portugal almost to Lisbon. However, before that you reach the
fleshpots of Bayona. Being a major
stopoff point for yachts heading South, the marina was busy with yachts who had
come direct from the Bayona meant jobs. For the first time in
We decided to hire a car for the
day, partly because Sarah had – ahem – left her handbag in the bar at Camarinas,
and partly because we wanted to visit Santiago de Compostela. So we set off on a long day’s excursion,
first up to Camarinas, where Sarah’s bag was still hanging up in the bar,
complete with credit cards, mobile phone etc, only 10 days after she had left it
there! I think this says something
for the Spanish people – it wouldn’t have lasted 10 minutes in a bar in the
We drove up to Cabo Villano then had
a really lovely drive on dirt roads around the coast, which is very dramatic and
wild. We found an old and very
remote Cabo Villano
lighthouse Driving rather than sailing round
the coast gave us a real appreciation for the area we had sailed through. I don’t think we had realised how remote
places like Camarinas were, or how poor the area appeared to be. It explained
the apparent lack of investment in the area. We drove back to Santiago de Compostela
Cathedral We headed back to Bayona and were in
bed by midnight, tired but happy after a very long day out. We will definitely be hiring cars again
– a great change of scenery. The following day was more jobs,
filling up with fuel, water, doing various things around the boat, before
casting off and anchoring just beyond the marina (cunningly still in wifi range)
for the night, to save money and keep clear of the wash from the fishing
boats. We had a lovely quiet
night. |