03/20/2010

After a difficult time wondering if health problems were going to stand in the way of further travel, we can now move forward again. We have spent a week in Scotland, and tomorrow are off back to Portugal to get Little Else ready for her trip north. Great to see family and friends again, however briefly. we can take more time to that later in the year when we are based in Ardfern again.

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03/06/2010

In April/May, Ju will be spending a month sailing from Messolonghi, in the Gulf of Patras, round the Peloponnese to Crete, with friends. Meantime, Liz and crew will be sailing Little Else back to Scotland from Lagos, Portugal. After a month or so reacquainting ourselves with West coast waters, we are off to Porto Santo, Madeira to crew for a friend back to the UK via the Azores, aboard her Victoria 38 Tamar Swallow. And in August or September, there are tentative plans to go to the Med crewing for friends as they sail back to Lagos from Greece.

Meantime we are working to get the boat back to sailing trim from being a liveaboard vessel for so long, prior to her trip north. So away with the pot plant, the candle holders and the electric kettle and heaters, off with the satellite dish, and on with the engine maintenance and antifouling!

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03/03/2010

Portugal's worst winter for years, nay in living memory, continues. One nice day this week, Monday, now back to strong winds and rain. Madeira recovering slowly from its horrendo us flooding. We recognised a lot of the locations in Funchal shown in news reports from our time there last year. What devastation!

We are heading briefly back to the UK in ten days for my checkup. Ju's arm is much better now, and we both feel pretty fit again, thank goodness. Other plans are taking shape, and will be reported here as and when they happen. Meantime we need to get the boat into the boatyard at the end of the month, and take it from there. More in due course......

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