West Coast of Europe & to Casablanca Cruise - La Coruña

Dark when we got to La Coruña & relatively cold at 6°C. It did warm up fractionally during the day.

It attempted to rain, sometimes successfully, while we were here. There was a port shuttle bus to the gates to keep us off the quays. We walked round the coast road to the Hercules Tower, the oldest lighthouse in Europe, passing a good modern sculpture of Mary.

There was a little beach on the way with two chaps in wet suits braving the briny. Every lamp post, themselves quite arty, had a different bit of art on it.

St. Mary

The Fort

Part of the old Wall

A Bastion on the Wall

Some Lamp post Art

The little beach resort

Torre del Hercules

We stopped for a coffee in a café strictly for locals: this town is not at all touristy. Then, we walked directly through this newer part to the old town, passing a political graffito. The Old City was quite hilly. We liked St. Mary's Church & there were musicians practising.

Political graffito

St. Mary's

Inside St. Mary's

The altar

Plaza Espagne

Very hilly

A typical side street

It started raining in earnest as we got into the Town Hall Square & we fled back to the ship just after midday, having walked around for three hours.

In summary, this ship is a tad posher than the Marco Polo but also a bit more expensive. Thanks are due to the ever-friendly crew & especially to Duangduan Kiengrum for mucking out our stable unobtrusively & efficiently, plus to our largely friendly & interesting fellow passengers (excepting the odd Hyacinth Bucket & obvious Daily Mail readers) especially Katrina & Alan; Sylvia & Pauline; Olive & Fred; Margaret & Gillian; Margaret & Leonard: Jenny & George & others who's names we did not catch.