Portugal

Portugal is just like we remembered it.  Especially the sardines.  Andrew and Sue joined us just outside Porto (Leixoes) and we've been enjoying the warmth, the seafood, the comparitively cheap prices and the friendly people.  At least we were until the bimini broke this afternoon.  But it's cobbled together again now and it's on, on and South to Nazare tomorrow (they used to wear socks on their heads there, we're hoping to see them again).

There has been some talk in the UK, we think about excessive regulation.  We arrived yesterday in Figuera do Foz.  We parked the boat where the other foreign boats were.  We were told to move it 20 metres to the "reception area" where the police could interview us.  Having spent 30 minutes writing down every conceivable detail of the boat and our family histories we were permitted to move it back to where we started.   Then we had to report to the marina office to check into the marina.  The marina office couldn't help us until they got the details from the police, who unfortunately were by then unavailable...  Luckily a great deal of good humour prevailed throughout. We quite like UK regulation now!