Sunday 31st January Half way through the cruise. What an amazing day! The alarm went off early again and we were both on deck before 7am to see the sail in to Port Stanley. It was going to be a beautiful day - the sky was clear and although it was sunny there was a strong wind, but not a cold one. The temperature was expected to be around 14 degC. We sailed through a channel with land either side for quite a while. It looked just like Scottish islands - very gr...

Friday 29th January Two days at sea before we reached the Falkland Islands. We had a lie in this morning and a late breakfast. It was a hot morning with blues skies, very little breeze and an almost flat sea. Martin went to Clive's talk on the Falkland Islands in the morning and I made a felted soap in the afternoon at one of the craft classes. Which was a good idea as we had just about run out of soap and I had heard that there were no more soap tablets on th...