Hi again!! I know - it's amazing, eh - two posts in almost as many days! So, where were we? Oh yeah - the horrible weather on the way to Portugal .... well, we got to Lagos in the Algarve in the late afternoon of the 8th July - the day before Mum and Sam were supposed to fly in!! The boat was a mess - the hatches had been leaking and everything was damp and smelly. We had until noon the next day to clean it up, hire a car and drive to Faro to pick them up from the airport! Oh yeah - and we were both absolutely EXHAUSTED after the horrible trip. So will we make it or not? That is the question .... and you are going to have to wait and see until my next post!! Bye! Xx

So ... yes people  - yet again I have unforgivably neglected you all and deprived you of all the amazingly magnificent details of my life! I suppose I should give you some basic details of the last few months. Well - After my last post on this blog Mum and Sam flew home to Scotland and Dad and I left a couple of days after to cross the atlantic to the Azores. We went staraight across to Flores - the most eastern of the islands. Our passage was 22 days...I think! We had pretty good weather all the way and we were in SSB contact with some other boats around us, particularly a catamaran called Katar which has a family on board with a 10 year old boy, Eric who was friends with Sam when we were in St Martin. When we got to Flores we squeezed into the tiny and already packed anchorage and drank rum and coke until we fell asleep -- that didn't take long!! Flores was beautiful - the people were lovely and extremely friendly - I can honestly say that it was one of the best places I have ever been in my whole life. Sam, Mum and my grandparents were supposed to fly out here but to cut a long story (very) short -- they didn't! So ... Dad and I had to take the boat alll the way to Portugal. Unlike the previous trip we had horrible weather -- 30 knots against for about 5 days! More of this story later......