Blogs from Cangas de Morrazo, Galicia, Spain, Europe

A forecast is just that, it is definitely not a sure thing. As cruisers we check weather forecasts daily and often multiple times a day. The cruiser’s life revolves around the forecast. We have two sites, Passage weather and Windguru we check on the internet and then Bob downloads Grib files (weather data) into our navigation software. When we are out at sea Janice can download Grib files over the SSB radio. When the predictions mostly agree, it is one that you “count on” to make the decision to leave a safe harbor. On the evening of May 25th after checking for quite a few days we decided that we had a small weather window for moving north. We knew that the first day was going to be a bit harder with a little bit stronger ... read more

May 7 - May 14, 2013 We seem to have accomplished quite a bit in our first week in Spain. Unfortunately one of the things we have not done well is not transition to Spanish! We seem to say our greetings easily in Portuguese so we have to stop and think before speaking to be sure we change over to Spanish. Fortunately Cangas is located in Galicia, an autonomous community in Spain which historically also had its own language, Galician. It is a language closely related to Portuguese and had declined in use over the years. Since the re-establishment of democracy in Spain in 1983 there has been a re-surrence of its use with a generation that has attended Galician speaking schools. This has been good for us as people can understand the Portuguese we do ... read more