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The English flotilla congregates. (Ruffian, Annie and Persephone)
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Posted in 2020 Boats Europe Geography Spain Westerly 41 Year

Joy

Iain & Fiona Lewis August 8, 2020
That’ll be more fog rolling in.
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Posted in 2020 Boats Europe Geography Spain Westerly 41 Year

Attitude.

Iain & Fiona Lewis August 3, 2020
Fiona finds some protection from the sunshine.
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Posted in 2020 Boats Europe Geography Spain Westerly 41 Year

The letter B.

Iain & Fiona Lewis July 31, 2020
Ruffian sits on water, her anchor is on rock.
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Posted in 2020 Boats Europe Geography Spain Westerly 41 Year

Expectations

Iain & Fiona Lewis July 25, 2020
The tugs brood.
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Posted in 2020 Boats Europe Geography Spain Westerly 41 Year

Is big beautiful? Is small stunning? Is being alone lonely?

Iain & Fiona Lewis July 21, 2020
Usual Ruffian poses. Looking backwards reading books.
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Posted in 2020 Boats Europe Geography Spain Westerly 41 Year

Offshore Rules. Rule.

Iain & Fiona Lewis July 14, 2020

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New blog! 14th January 2021 Karma Chameleon Porti New blog! 14th January 2021

Karma Chameleon
Portimão Marina, Portugal

Boy George sung of the Karma Chameleon. At first glance this could be a song about a cute little reptile who can change his colour between red, gold and green. On closer inspection however it could be interpreted as a sad song about alienation and rejection....

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Ever worried about the delicate electronics on you Ever worried about the delicate electronics on your Volvo Penta engine?
We were, but now Iain’s added an emergency start switch, the potential problem has been assuaged. 

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New blog! 9th January 2021 Ingredients for succes New blog! 9th January 2021

Ingredients for success. 
Portimão Marina, Portugal

Whenever embarking on a boat job it’s important you have all the stores to complete it, time should be on your side, the right attire should be worn and the weather should be right for glue to set, paint to dry or resins to cure. If a single one of these ingredients is missing then you’ll be knocking on the door to a world of failure...

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New blog! 1st January 2021 The king is dead, long New blog! 1st January 2021

The king is dead, long live the new king!
Portimão Marina, Portugal

The king is dead, long live the new king. For every end there is a beginning and for every beginning there has been an end. On Ruffian this cycle is repeating itself in everything we do from exploring new worlds to hiking to the end of the earth, from finishing a painful boat jobs to welcoming a new year in....

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New blog! 25th December 2020 Alternative festivi New blog!  25th December 2020

Alternative festivities. But not that alternative. Portimão Marina, Portugal

The story of the modern Christmas usually includes conspicuous consumption, excessive consumerism fuelled by the marketing machine of 1st world economies. Those marketing machines sell the idea of eating yuletide logs in front of roaring fires while sheltering from the crisp cold after opening present after present....

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New blog! - 18th December 2020 Dopamine dealers New blog! - 18th December 2020

Dopamine dealers

Portimão Marina, Portugal

Mankind is addicted to Dopamine. As a species we’d go to great lengths to get our bodies to release it. We’d chase animals looking for the reward of a great meal, we’d chew coca leaves hoping their stimulate would release it, and we’d create gods to worship thinking that the high from meditation had something to do with them and not the natural...

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Christmas Day hike with friends in the hills above Christmas Day hike with friends in the hills above Monchique.
Happy Christmas from Portimao, Portugal. Happy Christmas from Portimao, Portugal.
New blog! Ruffian’s Venn Diagram 11th December 2 New blog! Ruffian’s Venn Diagram
11th December 2020

Portimão Marina, Portugal

Venn diagrams are great for showing when different properties overlap. Venn diagram themselves would sit in the middle of a Venn diagram about information and diagrams. At the centre of a Venn diagram between sleep, killing and cuteness, there would be a cat*....

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New blog! - All work and no play. 2nd December 202 New blog! - All work and no play.
2nd December 2020

Portimão, Portugal – Portimão Marina, Portugal

All work and no play make jack a dull boy. Now Ruffian is tucked up in a Marina the winter jobs list is being tackled we’re trying not to be dull and mixing work with play.

For months we’re been compiling a winter to do list....

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Getting ready for Christmas: Christmas lights ✅ Getting ready for Christmas:
Christmas lights ✅
Gingerbread biscuits ✅
New blog! - Residents! 27th November 2020 Ilha Cu New blog! - Residents!
27th November 2020

Ilha Culatra, Portugal – Portimão, Portugal via Albufeira, Portugal

There are good and bad ways to decide governmental policy. It’s possible for an autocrat to impose his will onto his people and simply decide at a whim what everyone will do. On the other hand, the masses can collectively let their will be known to the elected few and hope their wishes will be executed.....

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https://ruffian.uk/2020/11/residents/
Christmas lights in the south basin Portimao marin Christmas lights in the south basin Portimao marina.
New blog! 21st November 2020 The great escape. A New blog! 21st November 2020

The great escape.

Alcoutim, Portugal – Ilha Culatra, Portugal via Vila Real, Portugal

Tom, Dick and Harry. These are not rivals to the Rice Crispies trio, they’re the names of the tunnels that enabled Steve McQueen and his heroic cohorts to escape their confinement in ‘The Great Escape’.....

To read the rest of this blog, and to see more pictures from our travels, go to:

https://ruffian.uk/2020/11/the-great-escape/

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Today was spent mostly visiting a 19th century pal Today was spent mostly visiting a 19th century palace (Palácio de Estoi), a Roman Villa (Ruínas Romanas de Milreu) with stunning mosaics, and topped off with a trip to an eco friendly, ready to assemble flat pack art house. (Ikea), we need a new mattress for our bed!
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