Ragusa Marina
Ile Jeudi
Bob and Lin Griffiths
Tue 12 Jul 2011 14:51
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Tuesday 12 July 2011 (1700)
36:46.84N 14:32.89E
Distance Run 52 Miles
A new marina has opened near Ragusa along the south
coast of Sicily. A number of boats that have wintered in Marmaris in
Turkey for a number of years were planning to come here for this winter so we
were curious to see what it was like.
We left Syracuse at 8am and motored all the way to
Ragusa - no wind again. We topped up with diesel ( @ €1.589 per litre
which is a record high so far) and moved to our berth. The marina was
virtually empty, with perhaps only 30 boats in there out of a total of over 700
berths, no doubt because it was new. They had been advertising offers for
long winter contracts, again because they were new, so I set off on the long
trek to the office to find out whether the summer price would be so good that we
could stay more than one night. Well, at €94 per night ('water free') I
was a little disappointed. When I questioned the lovely young lady as to
why the prices are so high she said 'because it's high season'. To
which I replied whilst swinging my arm expansively across the breadth of the
near empty marina 'yes, and you are so full'. She laughed and shrugged her
shoulders and raised her eys in a 'I don't make the decisions' sort of
way. The price would be over €120 next month.
We were disappointed to find that the supermarket
was quite a long walk from the marina so we didn't bother with
provisioning. The walk would be fine in winter but in the summer heat it
didn't appeal. There is very little at the marina at the
moment and no engineering or chandelry shops at the time of our
visit. We understand Ragusa is a nice town and by this winter, with more
facilities in place, hopefully the liveabaords will have a good
time.
So we filled up with our free water and got ready
to leave the next day.
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