Sailing around the World
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Mon 18 Oct 2010 03:18
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SUNDAY 17th
OCTOBER 2010
Skipper remained in the bunk , while Aileen ,
Collette and Terry toddled off to Mass,
There they met the priest who publically welcomed
them to Mauritius and the Church from the Alter.
10.00hrs, Skipper joined the other 3 for
breakfast in the Hotel, Neil was still off with the others on the east
coast.
The food was only so,so, mind you there was a lot
of food, but the eggs were like rubber, and the bacon was as hard as
nails.
the toast was good, so we had lots of
that.
13.00hrs, Aileen, Terry and Collette wandered
off in the car to the beach , while Skipper remained on board to rest his
wounds,
Irine from " Tucanon " came over to " A Lady" to
wish a speedy recovery to the skipper, which was nice, and
appreciated.
Skipper had lots of emails wishing him well and
most commented on the timing, How lucky we were to be in a civilized
place when all this
happened.................. Well we all know how important timing is,, its
everything really.
or " being in the right place at the right time
"
Thanks to all the well wishers,
18.00hrs, All the travellers returned to the
boat,
Neil gave his account of the great time they had at
Silver beach, and described the Villa in great detail .
We were amazed at the security on the Villa, Bars
over all the windows, and they were warned to make sure that all windows and
doors were properly
and secured at all times, Then Neil proceeded
to tell us about some of the younger folk , who went into the town centre a few
nights ago
for a couple of scoops and got the crap
beaten out of them by some local thugs. sooooo, the place is not totally
perfect.
At the hospital, skipper was continually asked if
we encountered any Pirates on our way here, It seems that there is a lot of
Piracy around, despite all the vigilance of the Navy,, In some ways its funny,,,
As they say, history repeates itself and this place had lots of Pirates back
around the 1700's.
So, whats new ! They are just reinventing
themselves.
Did ye ever hear of the Dodo bird, well this Island
was the only place that this flightless bird existed and did very well untill
the place was invaded by the white man, Its not
clear if the bird was hunted to extinction, or if it became extinct because of
the dogs, rats
and cats that were introduced to the Island by our
ancestors. In any event, it is now extinct, but they do
have lots of models of the bird all over the
Island,
Collette cooke the dinner, this was a Chicken curry
and rice, all made with her own spices and was very tasty.
We had many callers , just chatting
etc,
Thats all for now.
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (
Skipper )
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