For a good part of this last week almost none of this has been visible; all we have seen is gloom and murk. Even today there is very low cloud shrouding the top of the hills on the other side of the estuary. So much for June!
When I looked out this morning there was a cruise boat the size of a small town in the port. If you could have picked it up you would have been able to put it down on top of all the expensive yachts in the marina and covered them completely. It must take the holidaymakers most of their cruise to find their way around the ship!
Because of the murky weather those cruise boat people must have missed all the beautiful views of the islands out beyond the estuary and the coastline as the boat came up the estuary into Vigo harbour. What a shame! It would seem to me that one of the few advantages of going on a cruise is that you get to see some good scenery. After all, they won’t have been able to do much shopping, today being Sunday! Maybe they have other places to visit yet. The forecast seems to be rather better for the coming week. We shall see.
We have walked out into the drizzle of the last couple of evenings to have a beer, some free food - I remain amazed at how bars here make a profit as some of them give quite substantial free tapas with the drinks - and to catch up with our email and other internet stuff.
Looking at newspaper headlines online, I spotted this one from the Telegraph:
“Donald Trump 'tired of Theresa May's school mistress tone’ and will not hold talks with her at G7”.
So much for the “special relationship”.
I didn’t get to read much more of it as the Telegraph is one of those mean newspapers which insists that you have to be a subscriber if you want to have access to their articles in full.
From the Independent I gleaned this little gem:
“A State Department spokeswoman has been ridiculed for citing the D-Day invasion as an example of America’s “very strong relationship” with Germany.
“We have a very strong relationship with the government of Germany,” Heather Nauert said.
“Looking back in the history books, today is the 71st anniversary of the speech that announced the Marshall Plan. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the D-Day invasion. We obviously have a very long history with the government of Germany, and we have a strong relationship with the government of Germany”.”
I suppose that we should take into account the fact that the USA is a long way from Europe and so perhaps should not be expected to know much about stuff that went on here all those years ago. But, really, which alternative reality do the people who surround POTUS live in?
And here’s another bit of American oddness. A kindergarten in Massachusetts has been teaching its tiny charges what to do in the event of a crazy gunman attacking the school by means of a song. It goes to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” and here are the words:
Lockdown, lockdown, lock the door
Shut the lights off, say no more
Go behind the desk and hide
Wait until it’s safe inside
Lockdown, lockdown, it’s all done
Now it’s time to have some fun!
A parent spotted the words pinned to a noticeboard in the school and tweeted angrily, “This should not be hanging in my soon-to-be-kindergartener’s classroom”. Quite so! But neither should it be necessary to train tiny children in what to do in the event of crazy gunman getting into their school!
I wonder if the angrily tweeting parent has a gun in-the family home!
Later. As regards the cruise boat, the weather cleared later in the day the holidaymakers will have been able to admire the ría and its beaches as they left.
It must have been rather perturbing, however, for the sailing school. At around 5.30 as the boat left, lots of tiny boats were out there practising their manoeuvring skills. Having a lorry pass you at close quarters on the motorway is bad enough. How must it be to be caught in the wash of a boat as big as a small town?
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