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School Kids In the Parade
Just like parades everywhere school kids participate. Here they were peasant children. It is always hard to get the blog updated with what we have done just before leaving a port. As a result will go back in time to just before we left Lagos to fill in the gap. Lagos had a Festival of Discovery that was held between April 26
th and May 5
th. This is to mark the period during the 16
th century when the royalty entered and elevated Lagos to a city as well as the departure of the Navy and the battle of Alcacer Quibir. We took advantage of being in Lagos at the time to see some of the festivities. The parade through town that we saw included the peasants, jesters, musicians, and upper-class as the King rode into town. The town square included lots of vendors that brought you back to the 16
thcentury with leatherwork, homemade beer, teas, breads and dried fruits. Many were in costume that helped to return you to the days in a medieval bazaar. Bagpipe bands played bringing in the Celtic history of the area as well. Fortunately for us we were still in Lagos when our friend, Jeffrey on KoOlina (another Caliber 40 LRC) returned from the US so we enjoyed viewing
Into the Role
Those in costume got into their role completely making you feel like you had gone back in time. the parade together. We had not seen him since meeting up with him in the Bahamas – it was great to connect again.
In all the time we were in Lagos we had not rented a car. Finally it was time to do so as we were running low on propane and there wasn’t a place in Lagos to refill the tanks. We also wanted to get some new mooring lines and knew that there was a shop across the border in Spain that had much better prices. It was a good excuse to travel along the southern coast of Portugal and explore. Unfortunately we had so many errands that had to be done such as provisioning with our heavy stuff when we had a car we didn’t get to explore as much as would have liked. Luckily we will get another chance when we leave the Med in a few years and pass by this area again. We got our propane tanks filled and then continued on to the town of Tavira where we stopped to walk around and have lunch. We continued on and cross over to Spain to the town of Ayamonte and did our shopping
A Wide Variety of Vendors
Offerings at the festival were varied running from dried fruits, leather goods, pipes, belly dancing outfits. These costumed ones sold wonderful waffles with fresh fruit which we tried. for the boat. Unfortunately the day is not long enough and had to come back to Lagos via the toll road which got us back quickly but didn’t give us a chance to see the sights. Fortunately we will pass through this area again in a few years so can explore more later.
We hated to leave the many friends we have made in Lagos, but it was time to leave. We want to thank Helen and Frank for the invitation over to their boat for a good bye drink as well as coffee with Pam and Bruce before leaving. We had hoped to take John out for a sail, but with our change of plans for leaving quite quickly we weren’t able to fulfill that wish. Sorry John! Hopefully in a few years when we exit the Med we will pass by Lagos again and reconnect. It was so nice to have friends here already as they helped us get oriented to the area and showed us some of this beautiful area.
Tsamaya has been in Lagos since October 3
rd and we have enjoyed our stay here. You can definitely tell there is a strong British influence
Another Carval
One of the traditional sailing ships from a neighboring town came for the festivities. as many live here part of the year, but you still get the feel of Portugal and its welcoming people. It has been a wonderful place to over-winter. We also have to give a big thanks to Terry, the OCC Port Officer and the person behind the Lagos Navigators group. He willingly gives much of his time to helping those that arrive in Lagos to get oriented to the area and help in any way he can. The nice thing is you can participate as little or as much as you’d like in the events that are organized. We decided to join in many of the hikes organized by the Lagos Strollers, attend the book exchanges where we not only exchanged books but many suggestions and ideas from other cruisers, and attended most of the Friday dinners that were organized for every fortnight (every 2 weeks). This gave us a great opportunity to meet many others that have cruised the waters of Europe to get suggestions of places to explore. Now the problem will be narrowing down what we can fit into our time over here!! We now have many more people to add to our list of friends to
More Sights at the Festival
Just a few more sightings at the festival – jester shoes, silver tea sets and ribbons and flowers for your hair. stay in touch with. The cruising lifestyle definitely lends itself to making friends quickly as we have so much in common. Thanks everyone for making our stay in Lagos a wonderful one!
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