Porto - Lisabon and the city Pos: 038.42.088 N 009.10.216 W

We left Porto Saturday at 13.00 after fueling some more diesel. We had good northern wind, but it came down during the night, and also the next day. 150 sea miles from Porto to Cascais ( Estoril west of Lisbon) was the first stop. Arrived Sunday at 19 o'clock after 30 hours.

Happy campers at the Portuguese coast

Then arriving Cascais harbour we were pulled over to the harbour office to check in. We found out it was a pretty fancy style, and also expensive. 53 euro a night. But we got a bottle of wine as a gift.  Had an excellent dinner in town that night, and sailed on next day towards Lisbon.

We had heard that sailing into Lisbon at night would be a great experience, with all the sculptures lighted up. Well, this was at daylight, but it was still great. Check out the pictures.

The bridge looks a bit like Golden Gate, with the same kind of construction

       and colour, and we thought it was 100 years old or sow. But found out later that it was finished in 1966.

It makes a HELL of a noise, since the driving pad is made of steel  'nitting'  You can see the bottom of the cars when you sail under it. The train goes on the bottom level.

        We had a dinner under the bridge at night, and then we got to see one of the sculptures with light. Could not talk together (almost) because of the noise.

Next day we went into down town Lisbon, and were real tourists. It's a beautiful city with lots of nice buildings and monuments.

                                                               

   The famous hill tram and here is a pictures for my friend Bent 2 meter at Ishoj.  He is an expert on the tram history of Copenhagen, and has his own office in the harbour of Ishoj. I have heard that Copenhagen exported some of the trams to Portugal and Egypt after stopping the operation in Copenhagen. Could this be one of them????

And the driver was really busy, avoiding traffic and people on the street.

                       

And this is for Polly and Kari, my sailing friends from Oslo. They know I like Traveling Willburys, and at the Hard Rock Cafe I happen to find the guitar that Tom Petty used during the Traveling Willburys time.

Jonas is going home tomorrow morning at 06.30 so we were only two left on the boat.

But while having breakfast in the cockpit this morning, and boy from the Netherlands ( 20 years old) came by and asked if we were sailing to the Canary Islands. I said yes, we are going to Lanzarote. He said; Can I come with you.

I said yes, and now he is on board.  Yes, coincidences happens on the way I suppose. Much better with 3 people, while sailing day and night. We do 3 hours shift, and then you get 6 hour sleep between your shift. ( If the weather is OK)

David Hielkema

Farewell dinner with Jonas by the marina

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Planning to sail out tomorrow, heading for Portimaao at the Algarve coast. It's about 130 sea mils, and the weather looks good. Maybe to little wind, but from the north east.

Just got to know that Terje from Fredrikstad is flying to Portimaao Saturday, and will join us to Lanzarote. OK, then we are 4 on board.

The rute track this far.