Now the competition, Link here to original post (opens in new window).I’ve not had any correct answers so the holiday for 2, wide screen TV and the flight to the moon will have to be carried forward to the next competition, but I guess you want to know what the wooden blocks were [...]

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Well we did have heavy seas and the wind was quite strong, but with the correct sails up (trysail and little bit of genoa which rolled away to next to nothing, and in the lower wind rolled out a bit more) Giselle was very well behaved and we just kept on going. We left [...]

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So with squid I thought it would be a difficult job to prepare but not so. The hardest part was trying to get all the ingredients for British recipes!
Firstly buy or catch your own squid.

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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, [...]

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Now we have had pulpo lots of times in restaurants each time it comes on a Pine  plate and is delicious, the pulpo not the plate!  So here is how they prepare and cook it in Spain.

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So what do you think this is for?  Specially made by David with the left over bits from the plank, the one we found in El Ferrol.

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My peppers, Pimientos de Padron style.
Well, having been in the library at Camarinas and realising how difficult it can be to follow recipes you now have step by step with pictures.

Buy your peppers. Small peppers about 1-2 inches long.

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Photos of the time with Mum in the gallery now.  Southern Galicia has light winds and hot sunshine while offshore there are showers and strong northerlies.  Very pleasant and we are planning a few days in the Ria de Vigo doing the last of the odd jobs and shopping in a language we can understand [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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