Hi all,

We left Gibraltar at 5pm Saturday. Had a a good 4 day break there although it rained like heck yesterday with strong easterly winds as a cold front moved through the region.

Kev left us on Wednesday to go and meet up with Jan in Madrid. She flew in from Perth. They will be making there way down to Cartagena by mid next week.

Jessica, my friend from Shanghai, flew into Sevilla on Thursday and joined Wally and Neil in Gibraltar. She will be with us for 10 days.

We hope to get into Cartagena by late morning Monday, just in time for the next front!! Winds are expected to be light through 6am Sunday morning, so we are motoring eastwards, yet again. Hopefully we will get a decent following wind for most of Sunday, through midnight, and then likely back to motoring for the final 50 miles to Cartagena. Hopefully the seas will settle down a bit during the next few hours. They are rather nasty at the moment, possibly the remnants from the strong winds the past few days.

Ok, that's it for now.

Neil, Wally and Jessica. 

- S/V Galatea