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The weather has been so bad here that “us cruisers” in the marina have resorted to emailing each other, rather than getting soaking wet going to each other’s boats! Is the height of laziness? Or just good sense? It is difficult to get your clothes dry when it rains day after day – we have had weeks of rain without a break now. Last night the wind blew from the land and all of our boats are covered in brown sludge, even the halyards and sheets are saturated in brown dirt, which is hard to wash out. Ironically we need rain now from another direction to wash out the brown goo covering our boats!

Despite the weather we are still making ourselves do things, we go out for a meal on a Tuesday evening, there are normally about 10 of us every week, and different people manage to make it each week, which makes it interesting. The meal only costs about 6 Euros, and the food just keeps on coming, if you have a few drinks as well the whole evening costs about 10 Euros! The food is tasty too!!!

Us cruising ladies go out for a coffee morning once a week and our numbers have swelled; there are now 8 of us! We have started to go swimming after the coffee morning, the local swimming pool is like an Olympic sized swimming pool, exceptionally clean, it will give us the exercise that we need during the winter months. When the weather gets warmer there will be a weekly barbeque, they are fun too, you bring your own food and drink and throw the food on the barby, and this is a great way to meet new cruisers in the marina. Currently there are British, American, Italian, German and Portuguese sailors here – I am looking forward to meeting new people this year from other countries too!