Rats abandon ship?
Serafina
Rob & Sarah Bell
Sun 14 Jun 2009 10:07
Very sad day as we had to wave farewell to Mick and Dione, much to the
collective relief of their daughters who have been texting them with
concerns over the report in this blog that they were considering selling up
and sailing into the sunset!! They left us stuck here in Cesme with a three
or four day storm due within hours and the whole district has lost its water
supply so we are hanging on to the very meagre remaining supplies on board
and are unable to use any of the shore facilities or get any of the laundry
washed.
On the up side though there are certainly much worse places to be storm
bound and worryingly I think I am getting to almost quite enjoy the minaret
calls. Sarah thinks there are less of them this weekend, but it might just
be that we are getting used to them now.
Rather an empty day really as we were missing Mick and Dione, knowing that
they were probably not enjoying their day too much either as it involved a
bus to Izmir and then another bus to the airport followed by all the joys of
waiting at a Turkish provincial airport, a four hour flight to the UK and a
joyful evening drive down the M6 from Manchester airport to Worcester! Got
very little done other than read the papers they brought with them from the
previous week. Wind was gusting 30+ knots almost as soon as they left us mid
morning and kept blowing all day. Worse due tomorrow.
We had expected more yachts to be taking shelter here, but the sea
conditions outside forced most yachts to stay put, although one very
windswept charter yacht did come in and executed a very creditable parking
manoeuvre, before a fairly shaky crew came ashore.