St Helena Ashore
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Wed 12 Feb 2020 07:03
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15:59.40 S 5:43.5 W
St Helena
Ashore
Getting off the water taxi was a
challenge (I always have balance troubles to begin with), zig-zagged through
check in process and a lovely lady in Customs suggested two fingers of vodka
after my next passage. Never thought of that, believe it or not. How anyone who
has never, ever been sea sick can suffer land sickness in the form of having to
hold on to the taps whilst teeth cleaning in order to stop the sink bucking and
rocking for a day or two is beyond me, but there you are.
Everyone so very helpful and
friendly. Obviously couldn’t face the 699 steps up Jacob’s Ladder today but hope
to do it before we leave. Booked all day tour on Thursday with a knowledgeable
83 year old. Very much looking forward to seeing where Napoleon stayed, an
elderly tortoise called Jonathan and much more.
Anne’s Place a
favourite eatery with visiting yachties served me four sausages, chips, salad
and coleslaw for five pounds. Bear had three lamb chops, chips, salad and
coleslaw for nine pounds fifty. I had a shandy. Vodka 1.65 a shot but the slim
can to go with it.......2.50. Tap water free and they don’t mind me charging up
my laptop. I bought two hours of internet
for 13.50 which allowed me to put two pictures on Facebook and do a few emails
but sadly, not enough ooomph to put any blogs on. So all the passage ones I have
redone with pictures and some of the backlog will have to stay on my laptop
until we get to Antigua. (This is being sent via the Sat Phone).
Jamestown feels like an oldie worldly
Cornish town that I remember back in 1989. People chat in shops, men sit on the
benches outside the famous market building enjoying a beer while they chew the
cud. As I sat and waited for Bear to collect our insurance certificate (fifteen
pounds for five days) a car stopped to chat to someone for two or three minutes,
no one behind bibbed or looked in any way cross.
Good supermarkets, tins up a bit in
price but that is only to be expected considering how isolated this island
really is. Fruit and veg a bit thin on the ground but delivery is Thursday. Good
butcher. Biggish fillet six pounds but frozen chicken wings and thighs didn’t
make my eyebrows shoot up too much........
We filled the day with poking around
the shops, I chose both our Valentine Day cards. Bought some solar lights for
Sleeping Indian, two tins of pulled pork as a treat for Bear at three pounds
fifty and two tins of ham at one pound sixty-five. Met up with the crew of
Finistere so instead of getting the six o’clock ferry back we all took
the last one at seven. Sat in the cockpit, lost at backgammon AND Mex Train but
we did soak our feet throughout – another job ticked off.....ooo the variety of
my life, clean the fridge on the morrow while Bear deals with the diesel
delivery (1.43 per litre). Bracing showers off the back of the girl and we both
flopped into bed at local half past ten – to us half past midnight.
ALL IN ALL VERY WELCOMING AND
HOMELY
FANTASTIC DAY
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