S/Y Babette Sails to the Caribbean

S/Y Babette sails to the Caribbean, carefully avoiding the Pirates, and then sails back again to Norway.

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Saturday, September 10, 2005

Last night in Lisbon

The morning melts away in preparations for our next crossing. This time we sail to "The Madeira Archipelago", the island Porto Santo. There are more repairs on our main sail, from North Sails. The webbing, poorly sewn, has loosened at several of the sliders and needs re-sewing.
In the afternoon we join up with Eiliff and Kari in "Blå" from Bergen. We take the train to Lisbon, and walk around in the Barrio Alto, the old city. An exhilerating walk up and down the San Francisco-steep (or Bergen-steep!) hills. A nice Plaza, a lovely park with a panorama view of the city, the castle and the harbour. As evening falls we find a "Fado" restaurant, eat Bacalao and listen to the music. I'm afraid we'll never find quite the same very special Fado experience as we had in Porto.

In any case we've had a great Lisbon day and now a fun dinner with good sailor friends, from Bergen boat, "Blå".

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