A Flying Visit Home from Marina Rubicon
Gryphon II
Chris and Lorraine Marchant
Mon 5 Oct 2009 07:45
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5th October 09.
We flew to Luton Airport to be collected by our son Peter
in the early hours, thanks Peter. We then drove to Norwich for a good
night and late morning sleep in a land based bed - our bed, it was wonderful. We
went to the hospital asap to find out about my injured foot and elbow. Crepe
bandages were ordered off, that is not done any more; the ankle happily was not
broken, which we had feared, but ligaments and tendons torn and pulled. I was
told to expect a period of up to 2 months for recovery during which I must walk
as normally as possible, exercise the foot to a given plan and ice it regularly
when resting. I was so pleased by this I would have given it a bouquet of
flowers if required. The elbow was punctured and badly bruised but nothing
worse, the dressing with steri-strips had been well done and it should recover
within 2-3 weeks. Alls well that ends well, just a bit painful at
times!
We had a very rushed 2 weeks seeing our beloved son and
daughter as much as possible, which was a joy; visiting
our dear mothers for as long as we could, which was lovely; fitting in dentists,
opticians, doctor, accountant and various urgent shopping, which were
necessities; gee whizz land lubbing life seems hectic! We had
little time left for anything else before flying back and missed out on seeing
many friends and relatives which is a big regret. We are not sure when we will
be able to do this again, maybe from Panama earlyish next year. Before then
Harriet, with partner Ben, and Peter have flights booked to fly out to be with
us in Grenada in December so we are really looking forward to that.
On returning to Marina Rubicon we hired a car, we
had one day visiting interesting places on Lanzarote as we hadn't had any
time to do this before flying home and one day reprovisioning the boat ready for
our Atlantic crossing. Lanzarote is a good place to do this as we found
a very large supermarket on the highway into the capital which was
relatively inexpensive, the bill was gulp worthy but will keep our lockers full
for quite a long time. Fresh produce we will buy at a market at our next port of
call as Lanzarote, being fairly desert like, has to import most of its fruit and
veg which has usually been chilled and just doesn't keep. We are ready to leave
here and are planning our next move.
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