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.
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| View from our berth in Gijon |
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| Tourist square |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Being overtaken! |
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