Portugal

Welcome to Portugal! We had a little ceremony at the boarder. My silly humans got out trumpeting instruments and noisily lowered the Spanish courtesy flag (a small flag of the country you are visiting hung on the starboard side below the first spreaders)and hoisted the Portuguese flag. We tried hailing […]

Well the day did start sedately. After a nice run in the park we all headed to the nearest cafe with some WiFi. The coffee is great in both Spain and Portugal but the batteries in the computers never seem to last long enough to get half the stuff we […]

Yes, oops, is right. The silly humans. They got their high and low tides mixed up and should have left in the morning. The next high tide was not until the evening and you really do not want to be sailing down the coast at night. Fishing nets and pots […]

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 […]

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.   […]

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 […]