I'm on a boat!: Plodding along, slowly but surely.

The main part of the storm died down and a window of opportunity finally opened to leave Gijon. The weather is still being unkind to us though and we seem to always have horrible choppy seas with either no wind or strong uncontrollable gusts. We have spent nearly the whole time on motor going very slowly. I worked out at one point that we were moving at the speed of an average walker!

We are still stopping each night at an anchorage point or in a port itself as it's too tiring being bashed about all day and night. Since Gijon, we have been to Ria De Aviles (industrial hell), Cudillero (very pretty) and we are now in the port of Luarca hiding out from more storms.

Luarca

Methods of entertainment include playing a lot of backgammon at which Tom is annoyingly good, especially as he's so competitive he can be intensely irritating! Downloading and watching a lot of Fringe and Flashforward... if anyone has good film suggestions, please feel free to share with us and planning when and what we are going to eat next, very important parts of the day! Tom also found a lobster/crab pot and so Mark and him have put mussels and chorizo in the bottom of it. Surprisingly enough, they have not caught any yet!

Hopefully we'll be leaving here tomorrow for the next port of Tapia but once again it will be weather depending. In the mean time we have just bought more biscuits and sweeties to keep us going and here are some other random photos from the journey so far...