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No We did not sail our boat inland…. We took the bus. We went to the VERY touristy town of Sintra in the mountains above the coast.   No, I did not get to go this time, because dogs are not allowed on the bus. I got left behind on […]

Well they sent me out to sea again.     South down the coast of Portugal from the fishing harbour of Peniche to the anchorage off of Cascais. I do not know if it was; the weight of all the canned goods they bought at LIDL’s, and stuffed in the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]