We are starting to acclimatise to life ashore, while trying not to let reality hit us with too much of a bump.  Last weekend we organised a day charter for some of the friends we met on our trip - from Tamarisk, Blase and Wild Alliance, and we had a gentle beat out to the Rough Towers, where we bore off, rounded Medusa Buoy and returned to Levington.

 

 

It was a really good day out, although the sail seemed terribly short; we were only on board for around 4 hours!  Great to meet up with everyone again, though and we were able to compare our re-integration experiences.  Someone had a book on how to write CVs, which was in hot demand!

 

 

For part of the beat we were accompanied by Duet, a 72 foot Old Gaffer which Juliet sailed on a trip to the Baltic when she was 16 years old, and had not seen since.

 

 

We also saw a beautiful Thames Barge from Pin Mill:

 

 

We have received some more pictures of our homecoming at the end of July:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pip has summed up how we feel - she told a friend she was "sorry to stop but happy to be home".  Keoma is now on the south coast, for sale.