Methoni again

Ile Jeudi
Bob and Lin Griffiths
Thu 7 Jul 2011 14:33
Wednesday 7 July 2011
 
We went ashore to remind ourselves of Methoni which we remember as a nice little hamlet.  I did some internet stuff and Lin went off to the Dia supermarket.  This has also now become a Carrefour and Lin found 2 butchers.  We met again at a cafe for lunch.
 
The internet weather forecasts suggest that Saturday will be best for the passage west to Sardinia or Malta, depending how things develop en-route.  The nearest is Sardinia at 340 ish miles so that's about 3 or 4 days depending on wind strength and direction.
 
We returned to the boat and read for a while.  Later we ran the generator to produce some AC so we could run the vacuum cleaner but the 'genny' soon stopped.  The water intake for the cooling was blocked with weed and the impeller had run dry and was damaged.  The heat alarm switched the genny off automatically.  I cleaned out the water filter and changed the impeller and we were running again.
 
Here are some pictures of Methoni when we were last here on our way east:-