Twiddling thumbs.

Serafina
Rob & Sarah Bell
Tue 16 Jun 2009 17:54
Monday 15th June

Pretty quiet day really with nothing much happening except the continued
wind blasting in from the north.

Back into the routine of doing various jobs on board, exercising the washing
machine and taking full advantage of the free Wi-Fi here.

We did wander over to the town quay around 5.00pm to watch the mayhem of the
gullets arriving back, but sadly none had gone out today, so it was all
quite dull.

It does now seem that there will be a small window in this weather on
Wednesday, so we plan to fuel up tomorrow and get ready for an early start
the next morning.


Tuesday 16th June

So it pays when discussing things with the locals, that you let them finish
the sentence as they often leave important bits to the end. We decided to
move over to the main quay so we could get a mini tanker to come and refuel
us. I asked the mariner if there was water there and he said "yes",

then "Yes, sir there is",

then finally "yes sir, there is no water"!

We finally moved to this new spot early in the afternoon and it will
certainly also make leaving tomorrow morning very much easier as there are
no lazy lines etc, trailing in the water.

A flotilla (first of the year for us) came in around 7.30pm and with the
wind still blowing hard, two of them got into quite a tangle but being over
on the far side of the marina we were in no position to help.

Sarah had a final shopping trip taking the opportunity to stock up on fresh
fruit and veg in particular as our next stop will be back in Greece where
the quality of veg is poor and the price high. We do have a freezer (top
loading chest type) but given the sort of cruising we are currently doing,
we have converted it temporarily into a drinks chiller, so we have water,
wine, beer, gin and tonic all at the correct temperature.

Meat choice is more limited in Turkey and of course there is rarely any
pork! The people living aboard their boats in Marmaris last winter evidently
broadcast on their radio net whenever, what they called 'Greek chicken',
appeared in the supermarket!