Jubilate Mare - Azores here we come!

Well the gap is definitely closing for the end of leg two. With this is mind we have been slowly adjusting our time zone. This is being achieved by moving the clock forward one hour, on the 2-6am watch, over three days - last one coming up. It means everyone has had the benefit of one shortened watch of 3 hours on the dawn shift.

Bruno made yesterday’s bread and there is none left for breakfast today. No surprise. Very good bread. But no matter, Pete and I have tucked into chocolate porridge instead. This consists of porridge oats, brown sugar, milk and drinking chocolate powder, microwaved and ready to eat in just a couple of minutes - yummy, yummy, yummy!

Our ‘boat family’ is a very happy group. It is a delight to hear the mirth and merriment, drifting down from the cockpit, as I busy myself in the galley. It brings a smile to my face listening to the good-hearted banter being exchanged. Bruno’s laughter is infectious and he is always smiling these days. (Myself, Roos and Bruno suffered with sea-sickness at the outset of the passage. Bruno went a horrible colour and when I asked the curled up bundle of misery if he was Ok the reply was “I am alive”.)

Well he is very much alive and kicking now and more often than not has a VERY large grin on his face. His lovely English is a delight and ‘bees-quits’ will never be the same again. He has also picked up lots of English idioms, and puts the emphasis in all the wrong places! He’ll be a local by the end of this voyage.

It was Martin’s turn to cook supper yesterday and we enjoyed a delicious chicken curry followed by our captain’s home baked cookies for dessert. In the absence of fresh fish I shall make something with canned tuna for tonight’s repast.

Bee

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