Giness in Lisbon???

Well hello again there! Been a whlist! Where were we? um... Vigo? after Vigo we headed down to Porto Crossed the boarder into Portugal at some unknown time in the morning to find the coastline filled with lights all the way down. Never thought I'd say it but thank god for the stupidly complicated English planning laws!?! After a night of Care ponting out random lights on the shore and in the sea (a pretty much constant barrage of "there's a light, it's coming for us, there's another light, whats he doing".You get used to it after a few weeks...) we made it.

Porto is yet another great place. 2 days spent in Lexios scraping the main mast and boom clean of filthy varnsh and then Varnoling (eco norwegian varnsh) it up. great stuff. i'm becomig worried about Dave, he's becoming obsessed with the stuff. Then the Germans turned up. Hannus and hiscrew on a ramshackle and beuatuful little steel boat (most boats seem small compared to Lista). All changed from work to play! Into Porto for wandering Reggee and booze. Wandering around with me violin on me back and paying with the locals. Great fun!

Time on net running out so will fill in on more details later. Currently near Lisbon. Beautiful (if slow) sail down. Phosphorescent Dolfins!!!! Mad.

Also it s possible to keep gong west (kind of) if you naviate celestially.
I resolve to use eletronic navigational aids no more!!! Whose ready to get lost!!!!!!

For a vague route so far click here