Atlantic Crossing into Fifty

Bruce arrives from Shannon, Ireland through Newark into Tampa this afternoon. Ask me if I'm excited?

More stories and pictures to come.

Lila

June 23, 2008 - Weymouth, England
i just made flight arangments for wed to fly to dublin were i will then arange transport to the south west of ireland still not exactly sure were ,but i think dingle peninsula. things are going well here , dan and jeff are racing now and i will meet back up with them later. ... will email when i get to ireland and call you again before i leave england . i love you, bruce

June 26, 2008 - Dublin to Killarny to Dingle, Ireland
dear lila, just to catch you up. yesterday i flew to dublin and took a train to killarny.nice town streets lined with pubs. went out and had a few pints then left by bus in the morning and got to dingle a little after noon found a place to stay then started to walk around in the rain. small seaside town i think i'll stay here for most of my time and do some walking and maybe go to the blasket islands( day trip)still missing and loving you very much will keep in touch from this internet cafe.
love you , bruce

June 27, 2008 - Dingle, Ireland
dear lila, things are ok here in dingle though very rainy. not sure what i'll try to do today yet. had breakfast at he BandB then walked to info center and then here. was asking at info about leaving here the day before the 1st to go to shanon to stay a night before i fly out. was asking about places to stay by the airport on the 31st ,nothing was coming up on the computer when it was discovered that there are only 30 days in june over here. good thing i found that out before it was to late. will try to call you collect some time later in the day. everything here is fine except i am not with you .will talk to you later. still missing and loving as much as ever, bruce

Will be leaving in a few hours to the airport.
Looking forward to moving on and getting home to you.

we had a very nice day yesterday,rented a car and saw most of the island including the volcano crater in the middle of the island. it is a very pretty island ,very green with loads of flowers and steep cliffs coming up from the ocean.

Bruce

Dan and Bruce will have a day or so in Lisbon before flying onto London for the POW Cup race at the Royal Yacht Squadron starting next week. Bruce then trains/ferrys to Ireland - to the Dingle Penninsula and then home on July 1 from Shannon.

I don't have details on Tony, but I think he's flying home from The Azores today too.

38 31.65 28 37.50 - Horta still, we haven't moved.

We had a nice day today seeing the island, our general area. Tomorow we are planning on seeing most of the island including the volcano in the middle.

Starting to finalise are escape plans. Looks like dan and i will fly to england on the 20th from horta. Tony flies home the same day.

But we are going to dinner now so i will say goodbye.

Bruce

This was in a message much later after a few beers...

we had a nice evening , had some dinner (very nice) and then went to what seems to be the most popular bar just a short walk from the marina. we where docked next to a boat full of english millatry.they were sailing from new york, they had a crew of 12 and here we were with just the three of us. different surcume stances but it was still funny comaring us and them. nice guys though , had a few beers with them. am going to sleap now , am the last one up

We are in horta and set for the night!
More tomorrow.

Bruce