We continue to have good weather and we make our way further north up the west coast.
Bosa is our next stop. What is unusual about Bosa is that we need to go up the river to the marina and then the village is another 2 km’s up the river by dinghy. The town is in a fertile valley and was settled by the Spanish in the mid 1400’s. The cliffs at the mouth of the river show you why there is no anchorage outside.
We stayed a couple of nights in Bosa and then into Alghero. Alghero is a much bigger town/ port and has Catalan origins. In fact Algheran’s do not consider themselves Sardegnan. They are quite a different group of people who until the 1970’s lived in a walled city, had their own language and existed in their own right. But then it became necessary to expand and to allow the outside in and vice versa. So they knocked down the ancient walls of the fort that were on the land side and opened the back of the town to the rest of the world. Even they moved out of the old stone fort and narrow streets into new houses, cars and convenience. And of course now that old stone fortress is renovated and with their sea views these properties are now priceless.
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