June 9th

We were sorry to see Duncan and John John leave as they had been excellent company and to his credit JJ had [unasked]dried up almost all the time

We left them at Santiago di Compostella, having seen the city by car the previous day. An amazing place. the pilgrims are easily identified by ther stout walking boots and walking sticks. Around the cathederal amost 50% of the people were pilgtims from all over the world.

After they left us the debate as  where to go next continued and ended up 2 to 1 in favour of returning home. Tina wanted to go on and to go back to see the puppies and i was warm enough. So we are headed  North again.

the winds on the NW coast of Spain are essentially from the North and are squeezed between the Azores High and the low over central spain so are or can be quite strong.

We motored back from Villagargia to Muros early in the morning to avoid the strong N winds and had a quiet passage until the end when the winds built up. We anchored in Muros but could not get out of the wind and so had a windy night having dragged our anchor with a bag of cockles around the anchor. We almost ran back into the yacht Cream Cracker also at anchor. Now she was laid up at weir quay beside us!! Small world.

Tommow we bike to see Noya a world heritage site some 4 miles away

Sunbird