Aveiro, Portugal

I dont have much time to write something but Portugal has been great. I love it here. The sail over was five days and very nice since it got warmer everyday because we were heading south. We saw tons of dolphins which was really cool. We got to Portugal on the 14th and had to stay on the boat for a day since the customs couldnt clear us. That was really unfortunate since we were all anxiõus to see portugal and it was superhot. But the local newspaper came by and took some pictures and interviewed our first mate. The next day we were on the front page! the next day we went to a maritime museum which was really nice and the mayor of Aveiro and the Canadian ambassador came to the ship to have lunch with us. It was really interesting to hear about all the Canadian and Portugese relations. The day after that we took a 3 hour busride to Lisbon and had the day of there. We did a lot of walking around and my friends and I went to an aquarium. We saw some really cool fish there. Lisbon was beautiful. Today our last day we had off and so I went to the beach with a bunch of people. It was really hot but the water was cold. But it was really relaxing after all the walking everyone did in Lisbon. We leave tomorrow morning (18th Oct) for a nine day sail to Corsica!