Anyway, Thursday was time to say goodbye to the gang at Nazare, and head to Peniche.
What can I say about Peniche... well, it was great to be in a new port, but wow... the inner harbour surge on a calm day was horrendous. Here's Lauren, smiling and happy about 4 hours prior to having the "worst night's sleep of her life".
There was a great fort in Peniche however, which we spent the last few hours of daylight walking around.
And of course, an awesome sunset.
Next day, it was up and at 'em for the 47nm motor down to Cascais. Cascais is a holiday town and was bustling for a February Friday, but was also easily one of our favourite stops so far.
You just know a marina's going to be swanky when it has it's own helipad.... (and they give you a complimentary bottle of wine on check in!)
And when they have tall ships in town....
In total it was about a 3 hour motor from Cascais to Lisbon, and gave us a chance to see the City's waterfront.
Once we were tied up at the new marina, it was time for a quick walk around the local area, then laundry and dinner.... the rain came through which meant conditions on the boat were slightly crowded.
The new marina is a good half hour's cycle out of town so we thought we'd head central today and see what the in-town marina was like. Blue skies, sunshine, and a nice cycle (Lauren scored a bruise or two)...
Which leads me to now, and my current view of Calypso in the Marina Parque das Nacoes.
In the end, we decided to stay at this marina as it's very secure, a good price and we're close to the airport. We're out of season at the moment so things are quite quiet, but the office has a nice lounge area with good wifi and there's a big mall plus an aquarium (25,000 fish!) in walking distance.
Anyway, that's all for this week. The plan for this summer is still up for debate - we can't head to the Caribbean 'til November and the Med is frighteningly expensive in summer - so we're going to spend the next couple of weeks weighing up our options then going from there.
Congratulations to the new rig. Good work , i must say. We spend a month in Lisboa , it is a very nice Town , but then it was more summer than it is now, we was also in Oriente , but at the pontoon behind your boat.
ReplyDeleteFrom Lisboa we get to VilaMoura and there we spend two and a half month , we get a new bimini and a new sprayhood , The sailmaker said 3-4 weeks but it ended up with 2 1/2 month.
Now we have left VilaMoura as well and continued to Gibraltar, but we had a stopp in Cadiz , so if you are going this way , we can recormend to make a stopover there, it is an interesting town.
Now we are going to stay here till the end of march, Ylva , my wife are going home to Sweden for work and then my brother will come and sail with me for some month, in that case we are going to the canaries.
// Filip & Ylva
S/Y By The Sea ( Helsingborg Sweden)
We have met in Fig Foz and later in Nazarè
Hey guys! Many thanks - it took quite a while to finesse the new rig but we're really happy with it now and can't wait to do some serious sailing. Was the marina in Lisboa busy when you were here in the summer? I think there's 3-4 boats occupied here now.
DeleteIt sounds like you've been busy and made good time getting down to Gibraltar. Thanks for the recommendation on Cadiz as well. We're going to try and get down that way after a brief return back to the UK.
Safe sailing! We might see you guys again in the Canaries.
Nathan & Lauren
Hi again. No the marina was not busy when we were there , it sounds like it is the same number of boats whitch are occupied.
ReplyDeleteHope seing you in canaries....