Market Day in the "Lace Capital" of Spain

It's Saturday in Camariñas and there's an outdoor mercado: fresh fish, fruit, and heavenly bread. We fill up our little galley.

We have discovered that our new mainsail has a screw loose. In fact several screws missing, the rest are loose. The new, very solid looking sail didn't even manage the Biscay crossing! It has thick plastic plates, screwed in at each batten (batten: flat, plastic thing-y that stiffens up the sail). Except the star-headed screws, have all loosened, the ones that haven't disappeared entirely.
Lucky for us little Camariñas has some screws that fit. These are regular, not star-type, the better to tighten them with. And "Babette" has a little tube of "lock-tight" to further help them stay put. So we return to "Babette" to saw off half of all 20 screws, to the right length.

Camariñas is known for its lace and the women who make it. The lace, called encaixe, is used on their national costume here. And on the towels, handkerchiefs, table cloths, just about everything. It keeps the lace-women, the Palilleiras', hands moving. They "braid" the threads which are gathered in wooden spindles, then they use pins to hold the pattern in place as they braid. Sitting in the doorways, comfortably in the shade, they make lace all morning and, after siesta, in the afternoons, too.

Camariñas has a statue and a museum in its town square. No war heroes or battle victories. The statue portrays a Palilleira, a lace-maker, the museum shows Encaixe, lace.