Shares in Estrella have rocketed. They were top of the Spanish FTSE gainers today. The sky is still very blue and the fridge is having a very hard time coping. It is now official, the boys have left the building the boat. Thanks for all the emails from home saying how bad the weather has been (although it sounds like it is heating up this week) – but it won’t get as nice as down here guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and you don’t have Estrella. We are coming home for a week so that will put the mockers on that. That will be rain by the weekend in the UK then.
Rob and Tom left today. We all went into Santiago de Compostella (why can’t they have simple names like Stirling or Denny? –that’s Denny as in twinned with Beirut) with Rob and Tom heading off then to the airport to fly back early Tuesday. Really nice city, full of pilgrims (?????) and tourist tat – ie lots of the equivalent of “see you Jimmy hats” which looked like walking sticks with shells and gourds on them. Anyone know what a gourd is? I didn’t.
Santiago is about an hours bus ride from Noya which is about a 15min bus ride (or 45min if the bus is half an hour late – it is Spain – cheap but no rush) from Portosin. Some great photographic opportunities. Shame I didn’t have the SLR with me. The Cathedral is not to be missed. I don’t think I have ever seen a more impressive inside than this one! ….however I am not starting the world’s best cathedral competition (the best bar and best marina is as far as I will go!). Lots of gold flake, ornate carvings and the biggest incense swingy thing in the world. Certainly worth the trip to Santiago. I will try and post some pictures tomorrow but this is becoming a logistical problem. Late evening it is relatively easy to compose one thoughts to paper, (or electronic media to be precise) however to manipulate pictures from the camera to the PC, run them through photoshop, reduce them to the right size, upload them to the web client, spin through 360 degrees on your head and make a ham and cheese sandwich all at the same time is almost nigh impossible – hence no pictures in this post. I will try in the morning. I promise.
So where were we. Oh yes, back in Santiago. The heat, and fear of death from hunger required us to stop for an extended luncheon break and as we only know “Estrella”, “vino blanco” and “café con leche” we were limited in what we could drink (ps Tom was on the coffee). Our mid-afternoon break gave us the same problem. Pam and I then said our goodbyes to the boys and wandered off back to the bus station and back to the boat. I haven’t a clue where they were sleeping tonight but there are no beaches around so no Sulidae to worry about. We got back to the boat around 8 ish, chilled out a bit in the now 29 deg C evening sun and then went up to the bar to give Estrella yet another day of impressive stock market growth. Back with more tomorrow.
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