Cedeira again and lots of talking

We headed off to Cedeira at 3 pm and despite it being a baking 30 C and the seafront beach for a town the size of Penzance there was plenty of room. There are nicer beaches but being able to drive onto the sand to drop all our baggage off is a real attraction and I forgot to buy bread in the morning so we did some shopping too.
Jenny took her first trip in the Sea Eagle kayak although, because we were all in it, we have no photos of the momentous event, we paddled out a few hundred meters and drifted about off a little reef watching bass and mullet chasing hundred of little tiny fish. I think she enjoyed it as we ended up talking about doing a trip down the Canyon de Sil next year.


Sam gave the boys a surfboard on Rowan's birthday and this a the first time it was trialed - they loved it and Cal managed to balance really well on it standing up, not easy as it is a narrow low volume board and there were no waves.

Rowan took a more casual stance hanging loose most of the time perfectly off balance and totally in control - we will try it in some waves next time.

We had been home about 5 mins when the folk who gave us the chicken and potatoes - Carlos and Victoria knocked on the door with a mother who they kept saying was mad and a friend from mexico who could speak English and his girlfriend and their very young daughter and Carlos and Victoria's two children Carlos an Cristien and I dont think I have ever heard so much talking at such a loud volume and such a speed. The mother did not stop talking at all not for a second and neither did anyone else really it was mayhem but we learned some Spanish and they learned some English and there might be a meeting at the local cooperativa possibly for dads and children from all different places either having a reunion or making freinds for the first time and it is either being recorded by TV Galicia for a saturday morning TV show or they sit and watch TV during the meeting and it might also be for mums we are not really sure and we don't know when it is or maybe when it was but it was all very interesting and took a lot of telling and brought home just how important it is to learn some more Spanish. We learned a lot about local families and how hard it was living here in the past and they can't quite work out why we want to live in Galicia - England seems to be a dreamlike aspiration for many people as a place to go and live and make money. I didn't shatter their dreams we said the climate here and the friendliness of the people was mostly what attaracted us which is true and went down well. English is the language of success and they all want to learn it - sounds promising for us.