The human’s are really rubbish at this sailing thing. They told me they were going to sail all the way to the anchorage at Cascais (just outside the harbour of Lisbon) and they didn’t. Eight hours of fiddling with the sails in light winds and rolly waves and they give […]
Monthly archives: September 2012
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Yah, we know it is a lot short of Lisbon, but it was bumpy and horrible out there. We got trapped in the ‘Lemming Effect’. The ‘Lemming Effect’ of anchoring was explained in an earlier blog, but the ‘Lemming Effect’ of departures (from a perfectly safe and sound anchorage) is […]
It has been a really crazy few days. It started and finished with some high winds. Over 35 knots. In the shallows of the lagoon we had nothing more then little wavelets that got you soaked on the dingy. We walked through the town into the Nature Reserve here in […]
I know we said we were staying in Porto until the strong winds died down ,but either the humans were too embarrassed to show me how rubbish their surfing is or, they got sick of sitting in rubbish. Leixoes is a big industrial port and with that commonly comes a […]
Welcome to the city of churches. Boy the Portuguese love their beautiful ornate churches and Porto is full of them. The import of ‘fortified’ wines, known as port, by the English made Porto a very rich city for a long time and it is reflected in the architecture. […]
Well it has been a day of highs and lows. We all get those days sometimes. First, a bad thing, I had to say goodbye to another girl friend. This one was a fellow boat dog as well. She is Portugese by birth but owned by a Dutch man. Does that […]