Nomad 2025

I'll  be here or hereabouts for the next 3 months. Not for the first time the Vesuvians have gatecrashed my party. For a moment there I thought it was my imagination,  but then this!

Shallow river entrance, unfavorable times of high water and strong winds from the south west every afternoon mean that I am stuck in this river unless I want to sail at night, which I don't. It's like a lobster pot, I breezed in and I cant easily get out again. What's the story here? His forsail has come loose and flogged itself to death. But the mainsail too? the owner won't be happy when he returns. But What's this? The cabin doors are open, is he onboard? Or have the contents been ransacked?

Zipwire across the river Guadiana from Spain to Portugal. Ready! Going! Gone. For any doubters out there.

Up the river Guadiana with Margaux. Helmsman not happy being photographed. Luckily, we are between heatwaves here in Sanlucar, only 31 degrees and a strong breeze. Perfect. Albufiera.

It is hot. I thought that I was being smart by getting out of the stifling Mediterranean and into the Atlantic and the promise of a cool ocean breeze but I now find myself only 20 miles from Huelva which has just broken the Spanish June temperature record of 46 degrees.