Luarca..Asturian fishing port……Biscay
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Bajansailor
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It looks like a wonderful place to visit!
How far away from you is it?
When you finally get your boat, are you considering keeping her in Luarca?
How far away from you is it?
When you finally get your boat, are you considering keeping her in Luarca?
Wansworth
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By road it’s about two hours,one of various little harbours set in a cleft in the coastline……if the Beneteau Baradour had been a possibiit would have been fun to keep the boat there for a while,certainly an iron bound coast,the nearest easy harbour to enter would be Ribadeo to the west…..or Gijon to the east…..as it was the boat even from a distance looked a wreak
capnsensible
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Went there many tides ago. Anchored inside the breakwater, there used to be an abandoned factory with broken windows mentioned in the pilot book as a guide!
Notable things.
Going ashore in the tender meant a very slippery slide up a ramp to get ashore. Great town though.
They had a beach party with a disco and loudspeakers all night. The noise level was incredible, body and boat vibrating. So we sat in the cockpit drinking wine until dawn. We decided to use a 'luarca' as a unit of sound measurement. Concorde taking off being around 'half a luarca'.
Later in the morning, a guy strode up and down the breakwater playing bagpipes.
Good run ashore.
Notable things.
Going ashore in the tender meant a very slippery slide up a ramp to get ashore. Great town though.
They had a beach party with a disco and loudspeakers all night. The noise level was incredible, body and boat vibrating. So we sat in the cockpit drinking wine until dawn. We decided to use a 'luarca' as a unit of sound measurement. Concorde taking off being around 'half a luarca'.
Later in the morning, a guy strode up and down the breakwater playing bagpipes.
Good run ashore.
Bajansailor
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Good grief, the Luarca disco playing must have really be deafening, if Concorde is only 0.5 luarcas on the Db scale!
capnsensible
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We were on a bit of a sailing cruise with friends and our ongoing competition was to find.....and drink......the cheapest wine we could get. A place in Luarca won. I forget the price but not the taste!
Wansworth
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By the number of bars I imagine the place is humming as thesun goes down
Bajansailor
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I hope that the cheap vino still managed to help to kill some of the effects of the Concorde dbs emanating from the disco.
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My memory is of having my worst ever black pudding (morcilla) served as a sort of watery stew in a plastic tent on the quay. The good news was Mrs Q used her Spanish guile to blag us a free night on the fuel pontoon in the inner harbour rather than rolling all night on a buoy behind the monolithic outer wall.
Wansworth
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We didn’t stay for lunch,looked and was expensive on the quay