This morning we arrived back in the Hamble with the boat. It was an uneventful 17 hour motor back with no wind almost glassy calm the whole way. Very different from last August when I was in the UK for Fastnet.

We spent two very nice days in Cornwall with my mothers cousin. We took his boat out for a sail from Falmouth (a little Westerley which he has set up with lots of gadgets),

had dinner at Port Navas YC which is a small friendly place with four tables over the river (very typical English)

and went to the theater at Minack Theatre which is the UK equivalent of the Marin county Mountain Theatre.

The theatre was cut into the cliff only 2 miles from Lands End by a lady see http://www.minack.com/dayvisitors/history.htm for the story. It was an awesome venue and I survived the chill with lots of blankets and a great picnic dinner including of course cornish pasties and home gorwn tomotoes (which as delicious) thanks to the cousins for providing. In my little brothers words however, I am a philastene as I don’t appreciate Shakespeare – the play was Henry V. I must admit I was more interested in the ships passing by – shakespeare is just really hard work for me.