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Went ashore and did a little bit of shopping and had the habitual coffee stop. After dropping the mooring we filled up with diesel (and petrol for the outboard) and water. Quite a queue so we had to drift around until our turn came to go alongside the fuel berth. Then we chugged across the […]

We had a smooth journey up to London and across to Thomas’ flat. Thomas was on holiday so, as he was not there, we just bought some provisions at the local supermarket to eat at home. It was very hot in London, so not so great for sleeping. The next morning Richard was up early

The first thing we did was have a quick shower and took our washing to the service laundrette. It is much more efficient than feeding pound coins into the marina washing machines and tumble driers that never seem to work properly. Then after the usual coffee stop and a little bit of shopping we took

Richard has a meeting commitment in London on Wednesday and Anne would like to see the grandchildren again so we have decided to leave Harvard in Falmouth again and travel on Tuesday. However, we were running out of provisions so we decided to head to Falmouth a little ahead of time and make sure we

One of the reasons we had left the Scillies was that the forecast was pretty horrible with strong westerly winds and rain predicted. It was accurate and we spent the whole day at anchor with heavy rain showers and strong winds whistling through the rigging. We just sat tight and read our books and recovered