A day in Lagos

We were intending to get the bus out to Sagres and have a look from the land where we had been at such a rolly anchorage but got delayed by chatting with Edmund on the fellow Rival moored next to us. Instead, we took a bit of a walk along the beach to the east of Lagos and then through the town and had lunch in a very nice tapas bar as recommended by the Rough Guide. It felt very strange walking along the beach as it was of course, packed with sunbathers. Neither of us have done a beach holiday for decades and it emphatically isn't our thing. Clearly it is for lots of people though and there was an almost overwhelming pong of suntan cream and acres of naked flesh on show. We were quite relieved to get to the harbour channel and cross over to start the sort of tourism we are more familiar with. Lagos is very much a tourist town and english is almost ubiquitous everywhere - a marked contrast from the towns on the Atlantic coast. We'll be interested to see what the rest of the Algarve is like. On another front. Our faltering steps into the world of chart plotters took a big step forward when we acquired some charts and tried them in opencpn. We also borrowed a usb gps receiver from Edmund which works a treat. I have ordered one from Amazon now but, in the meantime, will work to get by with my smart phone for which there is an app to allow it to work as a gps tether. The whole process is a bit odd and I am not used to the concept yet. More on this later I suppose. Photos will also follow soon.