Now we wait..

We spent 3 nights at Santander, 1 in the marina and the other 2 at anchor in the harbour. The marina was very quiet and a fair distance out of town but very pretty with helpful staff and a shop where we could get the sail mended. I did offer to stitch it back by hand and then thought better of it remembering how rubbish I am at that sort of thing!

Once in town we had a wander about along the sea front, bikini beach (lacking in bikinis!) and up to Magdelene Palace on the headland. After that we hired the free bikes and cycled through Llama park and back into town. Anyone who knows me well, will know that I have an aversion to bikes and that is why I would like to thank Shorty, Coops and Cotrozzi for their patience at re-teaching me in the park last Summer. Once I had got the seat lower enough for my feet to touch the ground and in very wide cycle lanes on the pavement, I loved it. I feel I now have lots of cycling to catch up on and want to at every possible oppurtunity!

We left Santander harbour with bright sunshine and blue skies but unfortunately no wind, therefore having to motor for 2 days. With the autopilot on, there was plenty of time for reading and we are now experts at fishing. We have caught numerous baby tuna, killed, gutted & cooked expertly by Tom but if anyone has any good recipes for what we can do with them, it would be greatly appreciated.

 

We are now in the port of Gijon, once again awaiting good weather as after having no wind for so long, we were suddenly hit by another storm of gusty winds and rain. Luckily it had been expected and our plan had been to come and shelter here until it passes. So far, Gijon does not seem the most exciting of places but maybe that was because everything seemed to shut after 12noon on a Monday!

Today we will be getting further weather updates and then the waiting game begins...