We are currently at anchor in the middle of Bilbao harbour. Bilbao is the principal town in the Basque region of Spain. We have been here now for a bit over a day. We arrived here late on Thursday night after a good and quick (in parts very quick!) two hundred nautical mile passage almost due south [...]

Whilst Nick was visiting us we took the opportunity to hire a car for a weekend and visit Bordeaux. Great city. It was the trading centre for south western France for many centuries, and was extremely prosperous in the eighteenth century in the period under the Bourbons, leading up the Revolution. Its [...]

Les Sables D'Olonne was fun. We had to call into there to get some maintenance items sorted. Chris Warwick had recommended his colleagues Wilfried Rolland and Thomas Rouzieres to have the washing machine saga finally technically put to bed, and to source a fabulously rare and elusive three meter length [...]