Salem

Moorglade's Voyage
Ted Wilson
Mon 6 Aug 2012 15:46
Our Position is  42:31.151N 70:52.359W
 
Kirsty and I spent Monday looking round Salem. It is an interesting place, it had  a long history as a major port, was the home of famous 19th century American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and of course held those witch trials. Kirsty and I spent an hour or so in the town museum which explains all of them well with displays and artefacts. However there is little commercial value in old ships records, and a no longer read author, so Salem is witch central. The town is full of witch related memorabilia, visit mementos costume and mask shops. Do people really buy all that tat. Witch themed bars and restaurants predominate with witches on the street enticing you in. Having said that it is a pleasant little tourist trap and we had a nice day walking round. We chose a place for lunch that was away from the main drag which made no reference to witchcraft but did have  small tv screens showing the Olympics at each table so we lingered a while over our salad.  
After a cup of tea and a shower back on board we took the dinghy ashore to be collected by Paul and Dinny from Carry On which is berthed on the quay side in Salem. I met Paul and Dinny at River Dunes marina in North Carolina while I was waiting for Another Adventure to catch me up and they were waiting for a new injector pump for one of their engines. I was looking forward to meeting up again.
They took us to an Indian restaurant for dinner. The food was excellent and the menu just the same as back in the UK and accompanied with Kingfisher lager. There seems to be a little irony in an Indian meal making you feel very much at home. We skipped desert as Dinny had ice-cream for us back on Carry On, very tasty it was too. We relaxed in there lovely saloon eating ice-cream and chatting until it was time to go back to Moorglade and to bed. Fortunately we had come ashore in the dinghy as by the time we returned the launch had stopped running.
 
 
 
 
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