Had the best nights sleep, so quiet and we didn’t drag. After our 2nd cup of coffee we decided to head off. It should only take a couple of hours if that.
I spied the white castle on the Spanish side in the distance so we knew Alcoutim was just around the next bend.

And there he was Tom in his dinghy coming towards us, riding river style, standing holding the rope ! All he needed was the theme to the Guinness advert in the back ground. He took me to the shops to get a few essentials, bread, cheese, milk and oranges.

We had been anchored in Alcoutim for only 2 hours and in that time we had Tom, Irish Paul & Moira (Noble Warrior) we last saw them in Jan and Roy (Adhara) who we last saw in Sines on board.

Decided to re anchor up river as we started to drag, rob said he could feel the anchor bounce a bit when we first arrived. Further up its mud and good holding, were just behind Jackie (Quo Vardis) and Barry (Beleza).

We rowed across to see Barry... He is a very bad man, who plied me with G&T’s they were rather good and by the time I had had two I was a very happy sailor! And if I had had any more I would have started on the “I woooove you” and fallen asleep.

Rob wanted to go the riverside tavern, about a 20 min row, we arrived to be greeted by Rogerio who gives us a look and then says “This is not April !” and “have you come by car or have you actually come by boat this time !” (the last time we saw him we said will be arriving April... And its now May.)