The race start today was at 8am. Unfortunately, there was very little wind so we had to once again turn on the engine and motor sail for a few hours. In the early afternoon, the wind picked up to about 15 knots and we had a cracking sail for the rest of the way to Peniche. Those in the rally fleet with spinnakers and cruising chutes put them up and it made for quite a spectacular site. Sadly, we didn't see any dolphins today.
We arrived in Peniche at about 6pm and rafted up to the Moonstream.
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| Rafted in Peniche |
After tidying up the boat and hoisting our code flags, we headed into the town.
Our first stop was to find an internet bar/cafe and one that served Guinness. Not such a tall order after all and after catching up on weather forecasts for the trip to Oeiras the next day, it became apparent that bar was getting a little lively. This probably had something to do with the fact that the football match being shown on the huge tv was Portugal vs the Czech Republic.
As it was becoming difficult to hold a conversation, we popped over the road to have one of the best seafood meals we have ever had (Peniche is a fishing port) and towards the end of dinner it became obvious that Portugal had won the game. Locals jumped into their cars and began driving round and round hooting horns and hanging out of windows and sunroofs with national flags. What an atmosphere. We later agreed that Peniche was one of our favourite stopovers.
We retired to bed, not sure what time the car horns stopped blowing but after a day on the water most fall asleep soon after the head hits the pillow.
Tomorrow it's off to Oeiras
Steve and Lynne x
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