Date: Friday 06/13/2008
Weather: Overcast; light rain
Our last night in Horta. This is a picture of the harbor from our hotel room. Enough said.
Scott and I spent the day on the boat. Not sure what the young people were doing, staying out of the rain, I hope.
We had an opportunity to spend some time with our neighbors. The boat next to us was from Brest, France. Marcel and Martine had been living on their boat and sailing for years. We met enough couples who were doing that to make me actually find the idea plausible – but none of them were on a 34’ boat!
From Marcel and Martine we learned that Brest was hosting a sailing festival that only occurs once every 4 years (like the Olympics!!). It is a major event and Marcel assured Scott that, as Americans coming so far, their attendance would be honored.
It captured Scott’s imagination (all those sailors to trade stories with), so the plan ("they have no plan and they’re sticking to it") was changed. They will now head for Brest, France from the Azores and go to England from there.
Without Robyn’s encouragement I still managed to trudge out to the wall and paint the red border around our painting. I had a hard time mustering enthusiasm because we had stayed too long in Horta already and I knew that my plea to stay another day to finish the painting under sunny skies, would fall on deaf ears from the captain.
Robyn and Eric arrived later and Robyn informed me that the border was dry – why hadn’t I done the next step?
1 comment:
Diane - great updates on your trip! Unfortunately none of you are ducks so I imagine the continuous rain is getting pretty old. I hope you see sun soon.
Take care!
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