Photos of Lisbon now in the gallery. Tuesday 14th October we plan to statr for Madeira. The windpilot will be doing the autopilot duties silently which will be good. May even be time to complete the story of Lisbon – Fado; Lisbonwalker and dried cod.

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Mary: An early start, and the forecast wind is nowhere to been seen, there is no wind. Motoring on out of Vigo area, though the fleet of fishing boats, clear of the world’s best beach. Well that’s how the beach at Illas Cies was described by the Guardian newspaper. Down the coast a bit and […]

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David:  Thought I would get my version in first before Mary, with her normal whit, portrays me in a light unbecomming to the captain of Giselle!

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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, the […]

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A few more photos from spain in the Rias Bajas folder and a new album started on Portugal. Loving the comments on the wooden blocks – keep them coming. Mary’s story of leaving Spain and the tour of Porto will be on the web soon.

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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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