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Published: July 18th 2013
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We have spent the last week exploring the Ria De Muros. The first two nights spent anchoring off the playa de San Francisco which was well sheltered and good holding. The town was small and friendly. We then moved to Muros anchoring outside the Marina, the town was bigger and busier, lots of history and cafes. They were celebrating a festival and the live music played until 5.30 am and at 9.00 am they sent up rocket air bombs from the pier !!! When do they sleep? It all got a bit too noisy and busy so we headed over to Portosin and have spent the last two nights on a berth there. A very nice place, very welcoming and friendly. Today we head for Baiona. I don't think we will have enough wind to get us there today so will either anchor up on the way or do a bit of night sailing. That is the boring factual bit over I will leave Sam to let her imagination run riot.
Coast of Death Tours
On our trip heading for Portosin via the little old 'Coast of Death' we were surrounded again by sea mist which you can see
in front of you but cannot sea through. Our vision was the equivalent of being in a snow globe or a cake/cheese dome and you can see the mist rolling towards you like something out of a Stephen King film or a 1980s pop video. Despite this Andy spotted an amazing site of migrating crabs swimming in the sea either side of the boat. There were 1,000s of them spinning and waving their legs or holding on to a bit of debris but all flowing away from where we were heading - should have probably taken this as a Lassie style warning, 'Don't go to Muros, they add meat to everything, they even put ham on their Margarita pizza whooooooo'! I looked this migration up on the internet and yes we did see annual summer migration of Spider Crabs - truly amazing! Another puzzling site is the flying 'Penguin style' birds we see which is the Spanish equivalent to gulls, I think these may be Guillemots.
First Anchorage was the beach San Francisco
Andy and I seem to have swapped personalities, he has become a worrier and I am relaxed trying to point out positives. He has become
obsessed with us moving in our anchorage, I keep explaining that we are still central between the ice-cream booth that looks like a wendy house and a second icecream booth. It could be these foreign fags he is smoking but I do think I truly exhibiting the 'Ignorance is Bliss' Syndrome.
Muros
Muros is a beautiful town, so many old buildings definitely no spooky clock chimes but the down side is they really don't recognise a vegetarian diet. My Nanny went to Spain a lot and when I first became a vegie she put liver and bacon in my pot noodle and claimed it was in there when she opened the packet, not cut into pieces to hide it, a whole great white shark fin of liver poking out the top! Yep, it was the Spanish influence of adding ham or sausage to every vegetarian dish that clearly influenced her as I mentioned earlier even pizza is not safe. As Andy explained our rocket alarm call is deafening and it is repeated at midday and then the bagpipes and drums start. I looked it up, bagpipes were mentioned in the bible and originated in Sumaria so they should
be following us around until we reach the middle of the Atlantic. At night the noisy funfair starts, prizes at this fun fare are weapons, yep you read me right, coshes, nun-chucks, flick knives, hunting knives see close up on photo. The live music is deafening which kept me half awake tapping my foot in bed to the Spanish version of Queens greatest hits. We went to a beautiful cathedral but it had so many scary icons, I have always found porcelain dolls disturbing but seeing Jesus with waist length back combed hair and eyes taking up half his face kind of finished me off. I think closing your eyes to pray must have originated here - no disrespect to anybody of faith as you know I am a happy clappy Christian myself.
We have come to the conclusion that the stone boxes on pillars are family tombs which you see in many of the older houses' gardens. How does an estate agent market the remains of a family being at the bottom of your garden as a reason to purchase a property, 'Winning sea views as long as you ignore the previous owners dead relatives in your peripheral
vision'.
Portosin - Dodgy Entrance and how to offend the French
Ahh, parking the boat on a windy day -not advised but since I don't know the Spanish for, 'Are you kidding me our boat will not fit in that space even if you cover it in soap'! We broke the little Frenchman's radio antenna and had to pay him in wine, Andy even though he spoke to him in French gave him an Italian bottle of wine which may have offended him if he had relatives that fought in the WW2. When Andy was doing the washing the poor offended Frenchman came to visit me while I cremating dinner and tried to have a conversation me - zut alor! I think he wanted to drink the wine with us and I was in the process of frying onions etc etc and don't drink red wine. I could only think of J'deteste le vin rouge, which on reflection probably made him think we paid him with an unwanted raffle prize
and insulted wine which is pretty much sacred to the French. How uncomfortable was I feeling especially when Andy suggested we stay a second night.
Batterias all finally checked for the grand fee of 10 euros and the blown fuse fiasco on the water maker replaced by a really nice couple we met who call the bow of the boat the 'pointy end' like I do. Finally some down to earth sailing folk who have their own names for boat parts.
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Richard Evans
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Boat Part Names- B.P.N's
Great Blogs Keep up the graphic depics:- as for BPN's same as A/C part names ..... Pointy End ,Arse end ,Left bit RB etc. JRE