Hola,

   Before I write about La Coruña, which is an exceedingly charming place! I want to just share some of the bright spots or our passage.  They were few and far between, but they were there.  I definitely think some higher power created rainbows because they really do lift your spirit after stormy weather as clichéd and hackneyed as that sounds. (Yes I do know there’s a scientific explanation, but when you’re in the middle of the ocean science isn’t so consoling as a rainbow.)  And dolphins, playful creatures who come to visit and entertain with their dives and twirls when you need something to make you smile. 

   Now we’re back to reality and the security of a marina for the time being.  And speaking of reality, it rains in the summer?   I can’t remember the last time we had rain in the summer.  Our past years in Turkey, North Cyprus, Israel  and Tunisia, when the rain stops for the summer months, it STOPS!  Every day is a laundry day.  No problem with motorbike travel.  Not no more!  I had to use the marina dryer this afternoon because an early evening shower came along.  I’d hung laundry out about 4 pm which seems late, but the sun (usually) shines until 10 pm.  Not today.  Tomorrow either as thunderstorms are forecasted.  “Passing strange!” to quote Othello (which means stranger than strange) but I’m reading The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown and there are lots of references to Shakespeare.  Anyway, here are a few photos from the bright spots of the passage.

And from those who shared sea sick stories, here’s some advice from my cousin Ernest; "never eat nothing before embarking on a boat".   And this from New Bedford  friend Beth’s commercial fisherman cousin…” just eat crackers and avoid fluids.”  

Ru

The bright spots in our passage to La Coruña: some of the bright spots being Randal’s ability to fix what needed fixing for us to make it to La Coruῆa.