Guest post written by – Scott Dinhofer Scott….Scott….. SCOTT!!! I was having a dream and one of the characters turned to me and started calling my name sharply. Turns out that on the boat outside of my dream, Renee was…
Category: h: Portugal
Lisbon – our last European mainland port
Lisbon was a transition point in our Verbena adventure. Since July the four of us on Verbena have been traveling on our own. We met up with some past European friends and made some new ones, but all our sailing…
Sintra
While in Portugal, we were looking for things to explore and see. We came upon Sintra that was only a 25 minute ride from Cascais, where the boat was. When I heard that Sintra was a collection of colorful castles,…
Porto, Portugal
From Baiona, Spain we started out motoring toward Portugal. Porto was about 60 nm south and forecast was for southerlies 10 to 15 knots going southwest. We started out motoring and were eventually able to sail on a close reach.…