“…Sentí el madero crugir:
sacrificada sería
mi vetusta nave
como tributo al mar,
por mi osadía,
de querer llegar más allá
de donde ningún hombre
en su sano juicio se atrevía.

Retaba ya al diablo
el alma mía
cuando brillaron los ojos
del vigía:
enhiesta, de un gigante
antorcha,
una nueva esperanza ardía
trepando lentamente por la costa…”

u.p.m., April 2007

This piece of a poem that never existed was the foreword of a work that Marta, Raquel and me wrote last Spring about remodelling the lighthouses of Roncudo, Laxe and Vilán Cape in the Death Coast. In Easter we travelled down to Finisterre to do the fieldwork.

Well, today Raquel surprised me with a very nice present. She brought me the book “Faros de Galicia” (“Lighthouses of Galicia”) by Jesús Ángel Sanchez García, photos by José Luis Vázquez-Iglesias and drafts by José Manuel Yáñez Rodríguez. It’s the best reference if you want to know the history in details of these pretty buildings in one of the wonderful (and tragic) coasts in the world

Updated October, 5th: I uploaded some photos of the travel. I forgot to do it before.