Re: Spanish Style Friday Surf & Culture Report

We stayed at a place in Nerja that had subterranean parking.  It's accessible by a vehicle elevator that is so tight it has only room for the vehicle.  Driver only inside car--not for the claustrophobic!

Paver



On Fri, Sep 4, 2026 at 7:47 AM Frank Paine <frpaine@yahoo.com> wrote:


Lost Boys & Co...
Okay, we thought it should be spelled with 2 "L's", but this is the Portuguese spelling and not the Cuban (#1).  They had every imaginable type of codfish for sale, including planks of dried cod in salt that you have to reconstitute for several days in water.  We had some great fresh cod that came from the Grand Banks.  Basque, Portuguese and Spanish fishermen were fishing the Grand Banks for years before Columbus.  They didn't tell anyone because they didn't want the secret to get out...

No parking in Hermosa, they're setting up for the Fiesta.  But we checked early and it's 12 miles visibility under partly cloudy skies.  Winds are light out of the west and the sea surface is smooth, looking like a wind line out there through.  62.7º in the air and 71.6º in the water.  Amazingly, high tide was at 6:07am +2.9' and low tide follows at 7:33am +2.8'.  Talk to the moon about that.  It's that pesky SSW swell out of 201º at 3.0', but there's some cute ones that could make you smile...

We were talking about the cool type styles we saw on our trip to the Reina Sophia museum.  This poster (#2) recalled the days when there were no set fonts and artists came up with clever ways to fill spaces.  Not to mention the great illustration by Aleardo Villa (circa 1901).

Navigating in Europe can be a thrill, but this turn into an underground garage (#3) was a squeeze!  Didn't loose any mirrors in the process...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!


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