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We continue to make our way south with a mixture of strong northerlies and very light or windless days. We took the opportunity to visit Santiago while in Portosin taking the bus inland to see this great medieval city at the end of the long pilgrim route across the northern part of Spain.

After a two day stopover in Bayona we left Spanish waters and entered Portuguese territory in Povoa de Varzim from where we have taken the excellent overground metro to Porto another World Heritage city and on the opposite bank of the Rio Douro, Gaia the location of the many great Port wine houses where we took a tour of Taylors one of the oldest companies.

My lack of linguistic skills has been much in evidence on this trip, French proving troublesome, Spanish difficult and Portuguese impossible! I’m hoping that the Gibraltarians still use English as their first language!!!