Lazing in Lanza-rocky

Or it could be Lanza-gritty, Lanza-grotty, or for those in Norfolk Lanza-grockley!

We toured the island. At 10am we were on a dromedary ride. By 11am we were on a bus tour round the National Park of volcanoes - they know how to organise their tourists here! No chance of watching the twigs get set alight in the earth before you went on the bus tour - no, no, no.  Then we viewed views, (not from the official viewpoint as they wanted 5 Euros for that!) took a guided tour of some volcanic caves and had an ice-cream on the beach front of the capital town and that was quite enough sight-seeing for all of us. Conclusions, Lanzarote is very brown and we think their ski season is very short.

In between polishing, cleaning, servicing, maintaining and writing pre-ARC lists (Lucy obviously - lists aren't Andy's style) we've been lazing in the cockpit reading having refreshed our bookshelves with a multiple swap with Pete and Sara (sail2newhorizons.co.uk) . And then of course the socializing.....

While the boat was out of the water we continued to live on board, life up in the air was pretty strange. Almost impossible to cook properly so we had to eat out - the first time we had been to drinks on another ARC boat so were late enough that some of the English kids had gone to bed, but by our third night we just stuck a pizza in the oven on the boat as we couldn't bear the crowds another time - very tasty Chinese though - and they have this strange habit of pouring you some dodgy liqueur into a glass with a porno photo on the bottom that's only in focus when the glass is full!  We were extremely glad when, a day late, we were back in the water and floating again.

Name the Auto-pilot / Caption Competition / What's Missing?

Thanks for all the autopilot entries, especially all Wendy's work colleagues. Winner for humour value is Ian with A-tiller the Hun but sadly the auto-pilot is still nameless. We are trying out Mick, as the lead singer in the band Simply Rudder, but it hasn't quite stuck yet.

We haven't had any suggestions for a caption for Andy's photo in Cascais - has no one got any ideas?

Best response so far to the 'What's missing?' photo is from Owain "Andy's missing - he's obviously in the pub with the rudder!". Closer to the truth than you might think (Andy).