The festival continued all weekend and we enjoyed some of the many events Inbetween working on the many little jobs that had acrued on Dark Tarn. I was extremely impressed that the whole town remained in fancy ( or period ) dress for the whole three days of the fiesta. Even away from the main seafront of Sada out towards the marina in Fontan, we were surprised to see a group of vintage bicycles speed past along the cycle way, everyone dressed in period costume as we sat outside a cafe enjoying mini croissants as a tapas with our coffee.
Lynne has a particular fondness for dressing up and to be honest clothes in general, so she found the whole experience of people watching fascinating. The picture below shows the rear of the Terrace and the marquee to the left. I have no idea who these ladies are but they look splendid!
Most of the events seemed to be quite gentle and low key. For two days there was a dog obedience competition on the front. We actually became quite regular visitors, the little dogs in particular were brilliant haring around the course like demented things! Very entertaining.
We did a fair bit of swimming in the hotter parts of the day Inbetween searching for ice cream. We also spent some time wandering around a street market. Even our new local was joining in the dressing up, our bar person Barbara was dressed up in the evening.
As the weekend drew to a close we tidied and and filled Dark Tarns water and diesel tanks in preparation for launching Monday.
We planned to travel just over 40 miles down the coast past A Coruña, This bit of coast is known as The Costa da morte, or The coast of Death. Our target was The small fishing village of Corme. Really the first available safe anchorage after Coruña. Most of The jobs list had been completed apart from going up the mast, to be honest the four tree trunks holding us up didn't inspire confidence when the wind got up! However we had polished the folding propellor and replaced the crumbling shaft anode. Varnished, filled and painted, both top sides enamel and bottom anti-fouling.
All in all we were looking pretty ship shape.
And hopefully a little faster without the drag of the weed. We had a meal out in the local cafe recommended by our friend Antón and a last few drinks in the Canalla bar. Hopefully we shall return some day. The weekend had been a lovely and gentle celebration of people just dressing up and having a good time, listening to jazz, it had been a real pleasure to be allowed to share it.
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