We have £300 worth of Marks and Spencer’s tinned food already on board but Gibraltar presented another opportunity for long term provisioning.
We intend to eat local, fresh rations wherever possible and we are getting better at managing our supplies so that we can stay eating mostly fresh food for 7 or 8 days at least but tins and long life will have to be used increasingly as our passages get longer. Gibraltar has a Morrisons so that was obviously the place to go. It looked exactly like a Morrisons and it felt exactly like a Morrisons...... to begin with. Then we noticed a few differences. Such as the bar. The gentlemen seemed to be drinking pints while the ladies shopped. Oh, and it seemed that everyone in both the cafe and the bar were smoking. Crikey.
The shopping trips went something like this. Carol left Meryon and Mike working on the boat and walked (20 minutes) to the store. This was usually against the oncoming tide of humanity that had just got off the cruise ship parked behind Morrisons. 
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Two or three trolley loads later help would arrive...... |
to manoeuvre everything into a taxi.........
......for the journey back to the marina. Once there Mike walked to the marina office, handed over his passport in order to borrow a trolley which he pushed back to the car park ready for loading and the push round to the boat. |
Things got a easier once Kit and Moyra arrived because Moyra was awesome scooting round loading trolleys and then two people is so much easier than one when at the checkout. |
The shopping experience was different because Carol bought so many things that we wouldn’t usually think of such as tinned steamed pudding, instant custard and instant cheesy pasta. Meryon nobly helped us to test such dishes over his first couple of days with us when the evening meal was largely made up of a mish mash of packet this and tinned that so we could try things before buying too many.
