This turned out to be really cheap and very good indeed. There were a suspicious number of trades men's vans parked outside and we were lucky to find s table free. This was obviously a favourite earring place for workmen and truck drivers.
A nice starter of local mussels was followed by a meat course that had defeated our poor Spanish, culleta, which we had translated as knife turned out to be ' blade ' or shoulder of lamb and delicious.
A bottle of the local Alberiño wine was included in the menu and we were very full and slightly drunk when we finally made our way back to Dark Tarn. We had noticed the brides from the beach at Cangas on the TV however couldn't really follow what was going on, the brides seemed to be chasing one groom down the beach, possibly an ongoing advert or soap. That evening a bride and groom were sailing past our boat again dressed in all their finery and were being followed and filmed by an arial drone and a film crew.
Later another bride chased the yacht in a speed boat. Still no wiser as to the object but it provides us with constant amusement!
The following day we took our dinghy and crossed the Ria to the opposite bank passing the distinctive islands of San Antonio and San Simon ( they are joined by a small bridge.)
The small town, really more a collection of summer houses on the shore is called Cesantes and after a bit of a walk around the shore we discovered a small restaurant built on a hill with the rather intriguing sign saying " we are open, come in" so we did. The chef turned out to be very friendly and took a lot of effort to explain his ' international ' cuisine.
The dining room had a very pleasant aspect with views over the Ria and the food was superb. The main course was ' lubiña ' or sea bass caught in the Ria and presented filleted, unusual in Galicia where fish are invariably served whole. As we declined Postres our host sent along a few blackberries and what seemed to be a type of passion fruit picked from his garden as a complimentary tapas.
We again returned to a dark Tarn too full to eat tea!
The following day our explorations took us further into the Ria by dinghy again to the town of Santa Christina.
We discovered a really nice little beach bar and returned the next day to enjoy a " beach day "
One of the downsides of the Ensenada was becoming apparent, it was very weedy, to the point where our normal swimming regime had to be curtailed somewhat. A lot of the weed floating about seemed to be cut, indeed it really was most like long grass. We assume it had been cut from the floating platforms, the vivieros or bateas that were used to cultivate shellfish.
Soon it was time to leave we had enjoyed our stay indeed Bob and Maureen on Modus Vivende had decided to stay in the local marina for the winter. We headed back to Cangas, we felt we needed a bit more onshore for a long stay but we would certainly be spending a few weekends visiting!
We set off back down the Ria going under the motorway bridge as usual worrying about just whether we would actually fit underneath.
It was a gentle motor past Vigo as the wind was virtually non existent, as we approached the dog leg around the reefs off Cangas we were delighted to spot a pod of dolphins playing around the port hand markers.
Lynne is normally reluctant to move around on deck but on this occasion it was the perfect place to observe the antics of 20-30 dolphins, young and old.
I managed to hurriedly grab a little video on my phone.
Soon we had to leave our new friends and reluctantly we left them to their games and made our way to our berth at the marina, we realised we had had nothing to eat all day so we had lunch in the small cafe overlooking our berth.
I suspected that Lynne was happy to be back and the welcome by the Dolphins had reinforced the good feelings we had about Cangas.
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