Thursday 26th January 2017

It was very calm crossing the Bay of Biscay during the night but it got a bit choppier as we rounded the Brest Peninsula this morning and turned east into the English Channel.

It's a long journey from Santander to Portsmouth by ferry but there are various things you can do to pass the time such as going up on deck and getting covered in spray and very cold.

Here are some of the lorries parked on the back of the ship.

It got dark long before we got to Portsmouth. Here I am seen trying (and failing) to solve a particularly difficult Sudoku problem.

It's quite spectacular coming into Portsmouth these days. Here's their nice new tower welcoming incoming mariners.

We passed what remains of the British Navy - two clapped out destroyers and a support vessel which seems to be being held together with polythene sheeting. 

We are parked tonight in a nice free car park just next to the ferry port in Portsmouth which we spent quite a while driving around trying to find thanks (no thanks) to our sat nav's very unhelpful directions.

Instead of travelling a few hundred metres as we should have done had Tomasina (the Tom Tom) been behaving herself we traveled 5 miles (8 kilometres) today. We are at N50.81585 W1.09135