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We found a great little tavern for our evening meal in La Coruna - went there by bike, of course!   We then departed at midday for Corme, having caught up with Paul Molyneaux!  What a great surprise.    We had a good view of Hercules Tower - all of it!   Then on to Corme with lots […]

It felt like a Good Housekeeping experiment – take the filthiest pair of shorts imaginable and put in oval shaped canister.  Add 4 litres of water and a dash of washing up liquid.  Agitate for 3 minutes and then inspect.    Change water, agitate again for a minute.  Change water once more and agitate for a […]

We had a whistlestop tour of La Coruna on the bikes, below are some of the sights. Well, I did say whistlestop didn't I!

We arrived in La Coruna this morning and received a fabulous welcome from Swallow!   Sausages for breakfast with steaming coffee - what a great way for the boats from Portishead to catch up. I had to include the Brompton Rally Bikes!   Hecla and Ocean Rainbow were two pontoons away from Swallow so we took to […]

We're moving on before we get too comfortable!  Here's a photo of the last supper (on board Ocean Rainbow this time - do note Blyth's flowers and Dave's solar powered sunflower) and one of Ares town from the bay.

This morning, all the fish in the world and we still couldn't catch anything!  Might it be a case of 'throw your net on the other side of the ship'?   James will keep trying but we look forward to the arrival of 'Swallow' and inveigling the help of master fisherman Elliot. Last night we had […]

Whilst dinghying ashore in St Mary’s, we almost hit a mooring line, took avoiding action and then found ourselves without power!  We resorted to oars as we failed to start the engine again.    We thought that we might have somehow damaged our outboard engine but decided that we would fix the problem in Spain and […]

Fab trip included flying the parasailor for 17 hours before the wind got too strong, travelled in an almost straight line covering 402.7nm (our passage plan was 400nm!) and arrived in Ares after 3 nights at sea.  Our welcome from Jon (Hecla of Uist) was wonderful as were the beers that he brought on board […]

We thought we would be on our way to Spain but no wind has put paid to that so we dropped a hook in St Agnes, spent a lovely day there and were going to spend a night as well until we discovered we needed internet connection to resolve our irridium phone issue!  So, heyho, […]

Wind on the nose is not ideal! The weather forecast promised a wind shift from south west to north west but it was south westerlies the whole way from Portishead to Barry and then on to the Scillies.  Quite a marathon.  We did stop for 4 hours in Barry to wait for the tide to […]