{"id":15523,"date":"2024-01-12T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?p=15523"},"modified":"2024-01-12T09:37:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T09:37:25","slug":"crossing-the-biscay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?p=15523","title":{"rendered":"Crossing The Biscay The Good, The Bad and the Lumpy."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A summer trip to Spain and back.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Bragg<\/strong> gave a talk on \u201c<strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?p=15523\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"15523\">Crossing the Biscay<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u201ca trip to Spain in July returning to France in August 2023. This was as usual a very interesting and enjoyable talk recalling <strong>Paul &amp; Elaine&#8217;s<\/strong> trip to <strong>Northern Spain<\/strong>. The talk was given by <strong>Paul<\/strong>, (could not be in person at the RNA as he was recovering from a bout of Covid so presented via <strong>ZOOM<\/strong>. Some members watched at the<strong> RNA<\/strong> in <strong>Welwyn Garden City<\/strong> with lots more watching it at their home via <strong>ZOOM<\/strong> including members from our sister organisation <strong>BOSG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Good, The Bad and the Lumpy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15528\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15528\" class=\" wp-image-15528\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Night-Watch1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"183\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Night Watch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After spending the last few years cruising the <strong>West coast of France<\/strong>, especially <strong>South Brittany<\/strong>, <strong>Paul<\/strong> and <strong>Elaine<\/strong> decided to be more adventurous and sail to <strong>Northern Spain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The talk will be about\u00a0what was good about the trip, what was bad and what it was like <strong>crossing Biscay in the summer of 2023.<\/strong> (it\u2019s not always lumpy).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15526\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15526\" class=\"wp-image-15526\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Guggenheim-Bilbao-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"183\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guggenheim museum in Bilbao<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>They focused on exploring the <strong>Basque region of France and Spain<\/strong> seeing the highlights like the <strong>Guggenheim museum in Bilbao<\/strong>.The Basques are fiercely proud of their identity and their unique language as well as their food and drink.\u00a0 <br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15527\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15527\" class=\" wp-image-15527\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Mutriku-Harbour-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"229\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mutriku Harbour<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Paul<\/strong> and <strong>Elaine<\/strong> will show you why this region is such a great place to visit.<\/p>\n<p>The return\u00a0trip included visits to the <strong>Gironde<\/strong>, <strong>La Rochelle<\/strong> and a very crowded I<strong>le de Yeu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A summer trip to Spain and back.\u00a0 Paul Bragg gave a talk on \u201cCrossing the Biscay\u201ca trip to Spain in July returning to France in August 2023. 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