You're Only Young Once
This past weekend was the International Festival of Celtic Music in Ortigueira, on the northern coast of the province of A Coruña. It began on the Thursday, and ended on Sunday night. While there is some pretty good music from all over the world (including a Japanese group this year - don't ask where the Celt comes in here), most young people go for the camping, the beach, and the camaraderie to be found. My daughter, being twenty and young, also went this year. Fortunately or unfortunately, this month she has a temporary job, and her week ends at nine thirty on Fridays. This year, too, there was the threat of a general bus strike, which was called off at the last minute, and no buses to Ortigueira were programmed from Santiago. So, she was desperately searching for transportation from friends and acquaintances during the week before. She finally found someone to take her, her friend, and one more passenger. The bad part, that the guy driving was starting out at one in the morni...