The Long Way Home

Sanitago de Camasella

2009-12-22T05:48:00.001-08:00

Trip to St James tomb was interesting. A very different sort of religious space. Almost the religious equivelent of a theme park. Each "chapel" a zone for a different place of heart. And scattered throughout are the tombs of dead bishops and/or saints.
Of course it is now but a ghost of what it once must have been. The incense burner is burnished brass the size of a washing machine. In times of high service it was lifted high into the vault where they calculate it reaches speeds of 60km/h! As it zoomed overhead trailing clouds of incense. Once a thousand smelly pilgrims would have stood awed below the swirling fire of the insense burner; pressed between the columns of the huge pipe organ as a myriad candles glinted off the burnished gold seraphim above the alter.

Eager for absolution the pigrims would have queued beside the 20 confessionals to be released from their guilt.

I trudged out into the rain.... Would like to visit again in the sunshine and stay a little longer in the markets and trinket shops.

The crypt

sv Christina II our Yacht!

2009-12-10T10:12:00.000-08:00

Originally a Roberts 53 Christina was at some time extended by the addition of raised bulwarks and a swim platform giving an overall legth of 65 feet.

Here she is at anchor in the bay at Camoret sur la mer.
Christina has a deck saloon layout with 4 cabins and sleeping for 10.

Christina was professionally built in a German shipyard and has a Merceded OM325 120hp engine in addition to her ketch rig.

Publish!

2009-12-10T09:52:00.000-08:00

Christina is awaiting new crew in La Coruna and its time to upgrade our communications. So a 20th century techie moves to the 21st and opens a BLOG. Even the name sounds vaguely dangerous, like something that crawls out of the bilges on stormy nights.

So from now on you all will get less emails and more blog.

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