Sunday 10th October
Back from Blighty. Richard and Phillipa have been keeping Martyn out of mischief?! But not updating the blog...soz.
Thunder and lightning on Saturday night but we decided to make a break for Sardinia and so left Mahon (Goodbye Spain!) when it stopped raining first thing. The sea was particularly unsettled after the storm and in fact it was very confused and uncomfortable for the next 200 miles... Pretty horrible really. It took 34 hours and we motor sailed for all but three hours of sailing in the middle of the night. Chasing a storm in front of us and watching lightning behind us for the whole night... The stars were amazing tho... 'The Good' was a wonderful sunrise and the finale a couple of dolphins as we came into port at Alghero; 'the bad' was the rough sea and 'the ugly' was me throwing up followed by Richard throwing up into his hand which came through his fingers and hit me in the face!! (a first for me someone voming in my face!) The sun did come out on Monday and we passed spectacular cave ridden cliffs enroute to Alghero. Really appreciated our arrival beverage!!! As you can imagine. Welcome to Italy. Never been quite so pleased to arrive.

Tuesday 12th October
Lazy morning and then a sightsee of the walled old town in the rain. Spanish influenced, lovely old streets and shops full of coral and turquoise jewellery; liqueur made from Juniper (Mirto); some dehydrated marlin roe. (apparently you cook it with pasta so will let you know!)