Saturday, July 23, 2016

Last night in Gijon to Ribadeo

We had begun to feel quite at home in Gijon (He – Hon), it was such an easy place to be although the partying every night was quite full on. I am not sure we ever got to see all sides of the town, despite walking miles, doing a huge Carrefour shop, getting our picture framed (interesting in our Spanish), going to the market. We met some lovely people on the centre dock and really relaxed.
View from our berth in Gijon

Tourist square

Art made of sierra bottles


Our last night we went out to the back streets with Lee & Andrew from sv Katherine and had a really local experience with families in a lovely square. We drank Sidra poured a little more calmly, ate Pulpo and tapas before progressing to another restaurant for a selection of local tuna and huge deserts – before collapsing back to the boats for an early start next day.



Sidra in the square with Lee fro SV Katherine




We couldn’t stay another day as another Fiesta was about to start to we set sail 8am on Sat morning into a grey day for more motor sailing. We had some wind but just not enough, so with a little engine we could increase the apparent wind and make a comfortable trip despite quite a big swell. Katherine left just after us and I think sailed a bit more than us as it took them a few hours to overtake us – they are 65 feet long! We managed to get the Assy up for a couple of hours and the sun came out just before we arrived in Ribadeo.

Being overtaken!



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