" A LADY TRIP " Sailing around the world and avoiding Volcanic ash, recession in Europe and Depression in Ireland.
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sun 18 Apr 2010 04:38
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FRIDAY 16th APRIL
201007
07.30hrs Another beautifull morning with
little or no wind,
Donal got busy on the phone arranging shore
transport. it seems like some sort of buggy's.
Skipper got busy doing blog and emails and was
followed by Aileen with more emails,
08.45hrs We went for a swim in the
wonderfill clear pale blue water,, criky, one could spend all day in the
sea.
09.30hrs We went ashore, were collected and taken
to the " Maitai" Hotel for our buggies,
Oh , what a laugh, we were thinking of golf
buggies, But no, these were referred to as " Fun Cars " and
looked like a small Bubble car
with an open top. Aileen and Skipper buzzed off in
theirs, followed by Donal after he managed to squeeze into his, this
took a bit of time.
Later S & A abandoned their buggy as it had a
broken exhaust pipe, and it was replaced with what we could only describe
as a WW2
tubular steel dune buggy.................. A
complete rattle trap, but did the job and it was funny, we must have looked like
two
old farts rattling along in this yoke
........but it was really fun and cool as well, plus they only cost 40euro's per
day, and thats real cheap out here.
we had lunch in the hotel and it was
excellent,
Later we went for a swim off the back of the boat
before going for pre dinner drinks on board " Voyaguer"
Skipper , Aileen and Donal were booked into the
hotel, so we set off from the dock in our buggies,
Oh Shit, we have no lights in our
buggy, well there were lights, but just dident work. and we had to use them as
we had no other transport.
and the Hotel was 5 miles away.......... Ahhh sure
God loves a trier, Sooo we dove off once more with aileen shining her small
little
LED torch, and it was pitch black , except for all
those shinning stars.
It was like driving with a patch on one
eye, and the other eye in the pocket....................... but we made
it in one piece.
The hotel were alarmed that we did what we did and
immidiatly arranged transport for our return journey.
We had a great dinner, in wonderfull surroundings
over looking the sea.
We got our lift back later, and had a reasonably
early night.
ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZ
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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