Our Arrival in Europe
Silhouette
Pieter, Pauline, Robyn and Kerry Lindeque
Thu 31 Jul 2014 11:23
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Photos from top to bottom: Eating crepes in France. ● Our first sunrise in England. ● Cheers! Back in the UK.  We are finally back! After a year of sailing to exciting new countries, we are back in England! While we are still
living on the boat and have yet to move back into
the Wool Barn, our trip have officially ended!In our last blog we were still in the Azores, making ready to sail for La Coruna, Spain. For the first few days of the trip I, and just about every one else, felt seasick because the boat heeled over so much. Luckily, it got a lot better as the sail progressed and we even managed to finish all o four school work! Then, six days, later we arrived in Europe. It felt so good to be back on land again, especially after having crossed the Atlantic only a few weeks ago. Another relief to be in Spain was the food: I love the tapas in Spain and the stuff La Coruna had to offer did not disappoint! We’ve been to this city before so we didn’t spend much time exploring it, instead we did lots of jobs, like giving Silhouette a good clean. While we were in La Coruna, Robyn and I made friends with two French girls- Orane and Mailéne. It was a bit awkward at first because of different languages we spoke but we solved that with the French dictionary on Robyn’s phone. After staying there for a week, we left La Coruna for a small Spanish bay called Ares. Along with being pic  turesque, it turned out to be a perfect place to go dinghy sailing.
Robyn and I had lots of fun sailing around the bay in our blow-up boat while
singing songs from Disney movies at the tops of our voices! But we soon left Spain. After a two day sail we reached France, our last destination before the UK. The port we stayed in was Morgat, a large bay often filled with dinghy sailors and windsurfers. In the mornings we have decided to start doing exercises, like sit ups and press ups (which are currently proving to be a form of torture for me). We did some cycling while in Morgat and hired out bikes and did a tour of the Cap de la Chévre peninsula. It was good fun except for the paths that were so stony that you push to you bike along it because if you rode you’d topple off and land in the brambles! After a one night say in L’aber W’rach, we finally arrived in the UK! I completely ecstatic to be home, especially since it didn’t rain when we arrived.  Our landfall was St Mawes where we made a checklist of all the
English things we have to do. So far we’ve ‘eaten a
pasty’, ‘gone to a pub’ and ‘gotten stuck in the rain’. Soon we sailed to Halford, one of our favourite anchorages in the UK. The anchorage is in a very picturesque river with a yacht club and a small village on land. It was great to be there, nevertheless the food side of things was a little disappointing since a café we really wanted to go was closed and the yachts club which I had stated to make the best chicken nuggets ever (sorry KFC!) didn’t have them on their menu any more. My heart would have been broken if they hadn’t served up a delicious roast chicken instead. Our next stop was Looe (pronounced loo-ee). We only stayed there one night and didn’t go ashore as there appeared to be a fair on the beach which meant that it was very crowded and noisy! Then the next day we finally arrived in Plymouth! I felt so weird to be back after staying away for a whole year! While we’re here we will be cleaning and packing out the boat in preparation for our return to Sheepscombe. Kerry  |