Vigo is a great city, lots of character, narrow streets, church with out of tune chimes, which the locals don’t seem to notice! When we asked them which church it was they didn’t know what we were talking about. The Club Nautico building is a grand affair, the super structure of a cruise liner, the [...]

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Mary: Just to set the scene with you I am sitting in a very deluxe lounge almost gentlemens club type of place, cool (temp. wise) with restaurant/bar and a waitress who is very attentive. Next table along a group of gentlemen have arrived and are playing dominos all say hello to me and tell me [...]

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Mary: We call at a hypermarket on the way back to La Coruna which makes us slightly late for returning the car, but they don’t notice. Well not after we tell them that the automatic lock doesn’t work and the information on the dash starts at Jan 2007 every time you start I think they [...]

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Mary: Back down to sea level at Ribadeo, what a great time we had in the Picos. Tidy up time on the boat as Kirsty, our youngest daughter, is arriving. My plan was to shop on Monday the day she arrives but its a fiesta day and all the shops are shut in fact some [...]

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Mary: Christened the Peaks of Europe by returning sailors for whom this was often the first sight of their homeland. We arrived by hire car! Cangas de Onis tourist office first stop, where we found information about walks. Rather than the usual walking from sea level which is what normally happens when you arrive by [...]

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Mary: Ria de El Ferrol does not get a good write up in the books but I really like it, it is sheltered because of the great big wall that has been thrown together at the entrance, which removes any swell from entering the ria. We anchor off just east of the first fort, and [...]

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Mary: Having left David in Kinsale, well not left him, left him. I spend a few days with friends in the Midlands then travelled north to play the game of who can spot me in Scotland. So I’m waiting on your replies on that one! Katrina was waiting on the platform in Edinburgh to escort [...]

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David: An excellent sail across Biscay. Mary was back in UK, as planned, to see friends etc while it was easy to get back. David Lunt, Tony Owens and Stuart Conway joined me in Kinsale.

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Mary: Monday wash day and I drop the laundry at the laundrette, fill the lockers with food, and generally make things ship shape again. The lady from the laundrette helps me carry the bags back to the dinghy, but not make up the bunks with the clean sheets or pack the rest away, great service [...]

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Mary: We left Westport for Inishbofin, a distance of thirty two miles, leisurely sail with time to catch up on Rebecca’s news. Camy and Peden again closely watching their speed when helming, and yes you can go faster if you sail off course and more down wind! We’ve been to Inishbofin before (day sailing to [...]

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