We had booked flights with Easyjet, an airline we had not flown with before and were quite concerned as we had three large suitcases full of equipment for Dark Tarn. This amounted to nearly 60 kilos of hold luggage. Not something we had ever bothered with before, we normally travel very light indeed! However it all went swimmingly and we got taxis to and from both airports luckily Bilbao airport is only about 5 miles from Getxo.
Dark Tarn was in excellent shape, apart from one halliard that had frayed through on the upper crosstrees. My fault entirely, I had pulled it away from the mast but left it up against the spreaders and the high winds that had been experienced had done the rest. luckily it is just the spare genoa halliard and should be an easy fix.
After an initial overcast day the weather cheered up and we decided to have a walk to the old fishing village.
We discovered it had been so cold that they had had to knit wooly pullys for the railings!
Of course it quickly became evident we were back in the land of pinxos. I was quite taken by the almost a full English breakfast one on the left, in actual fact its a quails egg.
On the way home we discovered a new bar to us, Silvers which had a rather nice piratical theme.
We determined to return later as a band was due to perform. Turned out to be quite good.
It was lovely being back aboard our home again and both of us were looking forward to further travels. however there would be some unexpected news which would put a temporary halt to that.
But in the meantime we were enjoying our return to Bilbao and it seemed a good idea to get a bit of culture so there is only one place for us the Musee de belle arts.
Lynnes favourite piece in the modern arts section is this, it makes her smile every time!
I have no idea why the centaur has a wooden leg.
Of course being in a Royal yacht club and temporary members of same we got an invitation from Alvero to attend a function at the weekend. An evening of chamber music in the yacht club.
Very enjoyable, although amateur the musicians ( 12 or 13 I think) split into quartets and quintets to perform some very challenging pieces, and the situation was superb.
The yacht club is a building of three floors and is quite posh with lovely views out over the harbour and marina.
Later we went out to the Commercial bar which is rather nice itself in a different kind of way, I like the fact it has this notice above the door.
It felt good to be back.
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