A Lady trip /Canaries/ Avoiding the recession in style
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Mon 26 Oct 2009 07:40
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SATURDAY 24th October 2009
Slow morning, S.H. was definatly in slow gear, A.H.
was fine, she doesent drink, so she is firing on all cylinders, Anyway ,Aileen
has a hair
appointment in Playa Blanca at 10 o clock. Stephen
drove her to town and then filled up the Volvo with petrol, WOW ! only 36
euro's,
petrol here is only 77 cent's a litre.it makes
driving very economical.
Meanwhile , back to the boat and repaired the
broken Davitt, this is very important as travelling anywhere and towing the
tender behind is not an option.
All this took a few hours, especially as we forgot
to thread the weights on the wire before starting, and had to do it all over
again. shit.!
Anyway, lets look at it this way,
WHATS TIME ! ..............what ever it is,
we have loads of it, we can take all day ( and tomorrow if necessary ) to
do whatever needs to be done,
and this in itself takes takes a bit of getting
used to..
Later on, S.H. checked out the local diving center.
there is an existing set of diving gear on the boat, but very small and looks in
poor shape.
It seems a good idea to have a small pack on board
, just in case we need to go under the boat to free the prop, or check the
annodes, or indeed change the annodes, or recover something dropped overboard by
mistake. ( which has been done a couple of times so far on the trip )
.
Anyway we got a price for replacing the lot, a 7
litre tank, the breathing thing and pressure guage, flippers, straps and
back pack, and a lesson for 600 euros. We will decide on monday,
whats the rush, ............ Anyway the boat is being lifted out on monday to be
cleaned down and have the
annodes changed , ALL FOR 301
euro's
Later , S.H joined A.H. on the beach and did
some serious swimming exercise, meanwhile the roast shoulder of Lamb was cooking
on the boat and we had a great meal that evening, we listened to some music, and
then off to the super bunk,, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
SUNDAY 25th October 2009
We got up early for Mass, but too bloody early as
we we were not aware the colck was changing.
So having walked 1.5 miles, we decided on a cup of
coffee.
We met this Norweegan man ( I would say in his late
70's ) He has a flat in Playa Blanca for the last 22 years , He
spends 8 weeks there before christmas, and 8 weeks after Christmass, Christmass
is spent with the kids and granchildren in Norway.
What made this lovely man so interesting was, He
pointed to a swastica on the indian restaurant across the road and said that
HITLER
robbed the Swastica from INDIA and then set about
designing his own flag himself. I never knew that, Did you !
Of course we all know that Hitler started his days
as an artist, ( But failed miserably )
Having said the prayers, we stopped off for an
english breckfast in the " Cafe Paris " on our way back to the
boat,
S.H. spent most of the day cleaning and sorting out
the boat while Aileen went to the pool, where Stephen joined her later for some
swimming. The broken nut on the SEA FRESH primary
pump was fixed before we went ashore for a meal,
Later , back on board, Aileen kept the washing
machine on board working overtime and ironing at the same time and Stephen
worked
on the Blog, ( this is a very soffisticated
bit of boat. )
Tomorrow Paul, Christine, Emily, and Rachel arrive
in Playa Blanca, for a weeks holiday.
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