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... our beloved Vinho Verde (Euro 1.39 a bottle) Mmmmm.... It was off to bed, to awake to another wet day. Discussions over breakfast (boiled eggs perfectly done if you please) (Lymºs writing this by the way....Iºm just typing...) led to us both deciding it was time to break camp and head to the Algarve with all haste, we were beginning to believe that the sun was an urban myth...

Vigo was our last port of call on our cruise and I had given this place little thought and done no research, so it came as quite a pleasant surprise. Its a big place and quite spectacular when viewed from the height of the ship.. We didn't get chance to look ...

Today I´m headed for Vigo on the Northwest coast. Madrid has been good although tiring. It rained yesterday so I spent the afternoon at the Prado Museum. After that I walked forever, took a few pictures and ate some ice cream. If you´re ever in Madrid I recomend the Museo del Jamon, ham and cheese sandwich + beer = 2euros.

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Crew Schedules and Hours

We had a crew change today. It occurs almost every other Friday, where two crew go home for a month and two other crew arrive.

Most large yachts operate seasonally for their owners or are available for charter. In both these situations, there are periods of time when the crew can return home to visit their families. Since we live aboard our yacht all year long, the crew doesn't have the ...

Today our port of call was Vigo, Spain. It is in the Galicia region (northwest) and it is quite beautiful. It rains there a lot, but we had a beautiful sunny day. We had hired a guide to show us the area. The highlight of the day for me was going to a castle. It was amazing… both the building and the ...

... carries 15 or so cars at a time over the river to A Guarda in Spain. At €3.10 for a car and two people it is good value. We crossed the river and climbed the hill at the other side to the Citania de Santa Tegra, another Celtic village of round houses at the top of a high hill. Here some of the houses had been reconstructed with thatched roofs. The views of the river estuary and the coast were wonderful, but even ...

... anything but they got the hint, so it was on to the next stop which wasn't a great prospect in the rain on the mad roads. The stop we found was in the port town of Ondarroa, there were loads of other campers right on the harbor so it felt allot safer. During the night and the next morning the weather didn't seem to be getting much better so we decided to go south a bit. The weather in the north was pretty lousy, the weather certainly wasn't what we were ...

Today we headed south.  When planning this trip I got Cadogan's guide to Northern Spain and it had 5 areas in it that shouldn't be missed in Galicia.  One of them was Tui (pronounced 2-ie) this town is on the river Mino which is the border between Spain and Portugal.  The bridge that connects the 2 countries was designed by Gustave Eiffel.  Valenca, the city in ...

... He was a bit confused as to why I was there, I guess, especially considering that the last time I'd been there was before he was born. The next few days were a whirlwind of tourism and catching up and doing the huge summer sales that started. With Monchy, Miriam and Oscar, I saw Baiona, had fresh oysters, went to the train station and the saint on the mount. With Pedro, Henar and Pedro's girlfriend, we hit the Old City as well as having tapas and going to a bar on a weekday.

... down the carriage out of sight (not what I wanted). Out of the entire carriage everyone had 2 seats to themselves except me and the guy adjacent to me. So the lady beside me proceded to go to sleep and kept giving big sighs and filthy looks my way as I dug around in my bag for a pen so I could write postcards or get a drink. I gave up because I didn't want to **** her off completely and got my eye mask out ...