Hi everyone

We have enjoyed our stay in La Coruna visiting the food markets and night stalls in all the pretty little lanes that lead off from the impressive main square.

On Monday we visited Santiego de Compostella, which is a famous pilgrimage town with a large cathedral, where we enjoyed a typical regional lunch in the garden of a Spanish restaurant, with barbequed squid and paella.

The tapas at the Club Nautico on Sunday were very good and it gave us a chance to catch up with the rest of the rally, lots of lively stories with the help of a few glasses of wine !

We departed the marina at 10.30am on Tuesday on route to La Trinitee in South Brittany and had a lovely sail all day and night with the wind on the stern quarter and the sun shining, what a contrast to our trip going the other way !

After the radio net at 6pm we were feeling a little left out as everyone else were flying spinnakers, so after lots of encouragement from Katie, ours went up about an hour later after we figured out where all the bits of string needed to go.

Dinner in the cockpit was chicken fahijtas followed by some amazing flambee bananas cooked by our resident chef Annie.

The spinnaker came down again before sunset which exhausted us all so we went straight into the watch system and a lovely peaceful night for sleeping at sea was a welcome new experience for us all.

It is now Wed 10.30am and we are nearly half way and enjoying some chill out music on the ipod. I have finished my book, listened to the radio net and plotted all the positions so now I can feel another exercise session coming on.  

Lots of apologies for the Google earth positioning still not working, we did not have wi fi at the marina and so I haven’t been able to get into the site and sort it out, I am hoping to do this in France on Friday.

Our ETA for France is tomorrow lunchtime (Thursday) and we plan to anchor in Isle Houat and have a barby on the beach that night before going into La Trinitee on Friday. We are hoping that Raymarine will meet us there to fix our chart reader so that we have use of that again before we return home.

My sun sights using the sextant aren’t quite accurate enough for navigating into port on a dark night !

Chris, Mark, Katie, Tom & Annie