Fancy meeting you here...
Tamarisk
Sun 4 Sep 2005 15:38
some friends from Suffolk came to the end of their holiday here. James,
Amanda, Becky, Hannah and Toby Groom from Harkstead were staying a few
miles East of Lagos and came to see us for a day. We had a great time -
the children playing in some big surf on one of the beaches and the
grown-ups (when not pulling the children back to the sand) catching up on
gossip.
We´ve also seen Roy Beaumont, father of Penny´s friend Philly, who´s doing
the ARC for the second time this year. He first did it 15 years ago in a
34-footer. He´d left his current boat, Zamia II, in Lagos and was back
with a couple of friends to sail her down to the Canaries.
We plan to move at the end of this week. It´s about 450 miles to
Madeira/Porto Santo. We need to stock up, check the boat over and finish a
few jobs. The children started ´school´ last week - two hours of literacy
and numeracy plus some project work each morning. They´ve been doing Drake
and Columbus. There´s a museum in the town dedicated to the Portugese
Great Discoveries. It´ll make a good ´school outing´ before we go.
Pics -
James, Becky, Hannah, Anna and Amanda
The Fenton-Jones´s
Playing in the surf
The whole gang