Half way there...

Well, we have made it to Gijon, about half way from Bilbao to La Coruna (where we are headed). Its been an interesting journey so far, and i can definitely admit that im not really the sea-fairing type! The whole coastline that we are 'sailing' is known as the Bay of Biscay, which is nortious for shite weather and sailing conditions, and its certainly living up to that. Up until yesturday there was not a spot of wind and we plodded along with the engine running for two days because otherwise we would have been going just about nowhere. So yesturday we headed off from Ribadesella expecting to have to do the same, when 20 mins into it i was laying on the front of the deck about to go to sleep when suddenly a huge gail came out of no where and i was almost blown away! So for the next 6 hours we absorlutely battled our way into the port of Gijon in like 60 knott winds (massive) with waves crashing over the boat every which way and me having to navigate the boat in because Keith was steering and couldn't see jack because of all the waves! lol it wasn't funny at the time and i was thankfull we made it in at all. Keith said that it was almost the worst he's been through, especially because the wind was coming straight at us.
Soooo, here we are in Gijon, the weather is still shite, and it actually looks like we are going to be here for a while, and may not even make it to La Coruna by Friday. I need to be there by then to get back to Madrid (10 hour bus trip) by Saturday because im now booked in to do another two weeks of Vaughan Town (Yey!). So we may not even try to get there at all and just stay here. Im not really sure whats going to happen, as long as im back in Madrid by Saturday i don't mind if we continue on or stay here. It seems like a nice enough town. We went out for dinner last night to this really tradition kind of local pub/restaurant and at the most AMAZING local fresh seafood, never had prawns, calamarie or sardines like that ever, and doubt i would again outside of Spain. I was sooo nice, and cheap as well.
So its been an interesting four days. I can say that ive NEVER slept like this in all my life. I can't beleive the effect its all having on me, i swear im sleeping about 15-16 hours a day. When it was calm on last Friday and Saturday, i just positioned myself on the front of the boat to sunbake and just fell asleep basically the whole time, i couldn't stay awake! Also because there was no wind, the boat was exceptionally rolly poley, which means ive basically been feeling ill for the last four days as well. It comes in waves but most of the time i feel light headed and completely lazy, can't be bothered doing anything but read and sleep. Although today, when/if it stops raining, ive resigned myself to get my ass off the boat and go for a nice long stroll, i think theres a gorgeous beach about 10mins walk away.
I think ive blabbered on enough, but i thought there might be a few people who wanted to know everything that is going on (e.g. mum :-). But don't worry, apparently theres pretty much no way the boat can roll over, its apparently a really good yaught (i had to ask!). So at this stage we are just waiting and seeing, but i don't really mind what happens, im kind of enjoying seeing all these amazing little towns on the coast. And i must say that the coastline is INCREDIBLE, totally gorgeous and amazing, i can't capture it with my camera, and often i feel too sick while sailing to bother going under deck to grab my camera, so ive just put up a whole host of random ones from a couple of the ports we've been in, Ribadesella being the most stunning of them all.
OK, im going to shut up now. Hope everyones well, ill give another update when i know more about what im doing next!
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