La Coruna

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The day I arrived in La Coruña was also the same day the 50th Anniversary Tall Ships Races arrived there and the place was swarming with sailors.

(One for the girls: I had a sudden flashback of the episode in Sex & The City when it was ´Fleet Week´ in New York. This was like Fleet Week in La Coruña!!)

It was a little too chaotic for my liking - many summer programs in the plazas which mean crowds and inability to get very far in a short time due to being squashed by people.

The Torre de Hercules (Tower of Hercules) is impressive. Note to self: do not wear skirt ever again to climb towers, must remember wind factor!!

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Photos

Plaza de Maria Pita
And that's the Palacio Municipal

The Italian ship
Also the most popular ship, where people lined up an hour before it was opened to the public. Sheesh.

Okay I should have warned you
.. that you'd see a man in trunks, but this was some challenge for the sailors - the fastest to walk across the pole and ring the bell at the end of it. Don't ask me why.

Tower of Hercules
Hercules was said to have built this when he overcame the giant Gerion who terrorised the inhabitants of the region.

Lamposts
Artwork on each is different.

Just to prove my point
.. that you'll never find someone to take a decent picture. That's my camera strap dangling across the right side of this picture.

Fiesta
Free concert at Plaza de Maria Pita.