Arriving in La Coruña, Spain

The weather was kind to us as we arrived off the Galician coast and we made our way down to La Coruña, retracing the route we had taken in 2005 in Laros on the way to our first Atlantic crossing in the ARC.

It was a relief to be moored up in the inner harbour, and a strange sensation to walk across the wide expanse of the plaza to find a well deserved beer, feeling the ground lift and swell beneath our feet like a live thing.  

We spent a day here relaxing, and I enjoyed making a sketch of a local fisherman.  

This was where Niall left us, having proved himself a great member of the crew, and accepted onto the team to rejoin us with Kyle for the Atlantic crossing from Cape Verde.