Portugal
La Coruña to Porto
Day 2
I slept pretty well and woke shortly before 6am. I got up, quick chat with Marco and Lukas and then I was joined by Viv. We settled down to wait for the sunrise and we were not disappointed. The water was glassy with the lack of a breeze, the boat glided steadily through the water, as dawn crept up on us from over the Portugal’s coast.
I made another of the cheese toasties for breakfast, Marco had beans on toast.
Porto was approaching fast. As we entered the river we got the fenders and ropes out ready. The tide and river were flowing out fast, so it took a little while. The 80bhp diesel got us there. We were met and guided to our berth by a marina employee.
Point of note: The visitor berths are always the ones furthest away from the office and facilities , just in case you were wondering.
We had a pretty good view of the new bridge. It was boiling hot.
After a relaxed afternoon we went out to the local fisherman’s village in Gaia.
We sat down at a restaurant which had lots of outdoor space and ordered. There was no one eating there until we arrived, but it filled up after that. The sardines were very tasty. I don’t think I have had fresh sardines for a while. I was instructed upon the flesh removal by Marco. We had the Vinho Verde de Casa (not sure of the spelling is right). All very good. We had greedily ordered pork belly too, they were good portions so we had a doggy bag of rice and a strip of pork.
We got back to the boat, and despite the night sail, we all had a bit of energy. So Viv and Lukas taught us a dice game called 10,000.the rules seems to be quite complex but here they are in brief.
- Player 1 shakes all 6 dice and needs to build a score of at least 300, with this or consecutive throws.
- 1×1 = 100
- 1×5 = 50
- 3×1 = 1000
- 3×2 = 200 etc.
- 4xn = double that?
- As long as you have scored something you can “park” the dice for that score and throw again.
- If you can score again then you can keep building your score.
- If you through and do not score then you forfeit your score and get an “X”
- If you score less than 300 you get an “X”
- 3 “X”s and you get -1000 points
- You can stop throwing and pass the remaining dice on and the next player can gamble with the remaining dice.
- If a player uses all the dice, they can throw them all again and keep building there score.
- First one to 10,000 wins.
Viv came first, Lukas second, me third and Marco last, again 🙂 At least he had a nice view.
Can you describe the challenges from a coruna to Porto? If we sail 4 days (without nights) will it be enough? End of September. Any good places to stop at nights?
Hi,
Sorry I havent looked at this blog for a while. We are back travelling so….
There are lots of inlets along the coast, so there should be places to moor but depends on wind direction I guess.
Pontevedra is worth a stop, but it is a bit of a way up the inlet (I’ve forgotten the Spanish/Galician name for it).
Hope it goes well.