Anchored in Sanlucar

Tuesday, August 26, 2008
We have been anchored in Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain for two days now. This is at the mouth of the Rio Guadalquivir, the river that runs through Sevilla. In fact, if we wanted, we could go all the way to Sevilla. But Sevilla is very hot just now and we're thinking that we can go by car later in the fall.
We've moved our anchorage several times and now have a place that seems satisfactory. It's a bit like our anchorage in the Hudson River where the current goes one way for 6 hours and then turns around and goes the other way. That means that the pull on the anchor keeps changing direction and could cause the anchor to drag (not dig into the bottom correctly). But we are in a good spot now.
Today we went into town and visited a Flamenco Peña. (I hope special Spanish characters like the tilde come through intact). We met the president of the peña and his wife. They were most gracious and presented us with baseball caps that said "Peña Cultural Flamenco Puerto Lucero". I'm very pleased that my spanish has gotten good enough to relate easily. I need to get a spanish phone number, but by the time we got back to the phone store, they were closed for siesta. Maybe tomorrow. Tonight, there is a fiesta in a beach bar nearby. I'll report back on that one.
It is so good to be here - a dream come true.