Viana do Castelo

We are in Portugal! From the moment we turn left out of Baiona onto the Atlantic Ocean we are surrounded by fog again. All the way even into the port of Viana do Castelo. Without any sight and barely any wind this makes for a very boring trip. The most exciting part is that we get to change our Spanish courtesy 🇪🇸 for a Portuguese one 🇵🇹, somewhere halfway along the way.

Since we barely have any sight, I spend quite some time on our bow this time, to spot all the fishing pods as soon as possible to make sure we are able to maneouver around them in time. When the pods start to appear less frequent I started my first Portugese lessons on Duolingo. Very happy to know leite 🐄🥛, which we don't drink, carra 🚗, which we don't have, but also the so far impossible to pronounce pão 🍞, which we do love to eat. Luckily we are able to pass all of the pods, without getting stuck in it's nets or lines. We did however lose another paravane and some other fishing gear to the pods, rip ✌🏽.

After arrival in the port of Viana do Castelo the fog finally disappears. It was quite an experience to sail into a new port without any clear sight of the pier or any of the buoys that are supposed to guide you into the port. As we move further into the port the fog slowly disappears and a very cute, except for the heavy industry that basically comes with any sea port here, town appeared to us. Once we are cleared by the marinero we venture into the town. We have one mission, find the bakery that sells apparently the best and most delicious some sort of Berliner pastry. Yes, we are also very surprised by this. But no we can't tell you what is what like, since unfortunately the bakery for some undefinable reason was closed... We didn't want to settle for a not so delicious supermarket attempt at the Portugese Berliner pastry. So after strolling around town for a bit, but without a clear goal which made Bart lose interest rather quickly, yet mostly because we were both pretty tired after being so alert all day, we returned to our Nimrod.Читать далее