I have been anticipating our departure from Cascais for some time now. Not to say that Cascais wasn't amazing, because it is a really beautiful spot, the people were very welcoming and you could take the train right into Lisbon for 1.60 euro and 38 minutes of your time.  But there are so many more places I want to see and looking at the date our trip is quickly coming to an end, it's hard to believe that it was 3 months ago when I hopped on the plane to Liverpool and started this adventure.  

Today is our first full day back sailing and also first day sailing with Captain Eliza. I was on watch from 11pm - 3am last night, deciding to sleep through breakfast, to wake at 9:30 to of course another sunny day.  I'm hoping the weather is going to stay nice throughout the rest of the trip; though warnings have been posted about swarms of Locusts south and southeast of the Spanish coasts, which is a bit on the scary side and right about then I could do with the rougher waters.
  

Before we left the dock we started going over more navigation which is actually pretty exciting and fun if you get your calculations right. For the rest of the trip we are not going to be using our GPS and just traditional navigation, and calculation the miles we've gone through water using the Taff rail and logging it on the hour along with our hourly boat checks. So lots going on over here and I'll keep the blogs coming.

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