A Greek bearing gifts...

Serafina
Rob & Sarah Bell
Mon 24 Aug 2009 19:25
Monday 24th August

Quiet day today getting a few things things done, whilst Sarah explored the
town which was no mean feat as it is a very haphazard place with no
pavements and a very interesting one way system that does not seem to apply
to motorbikes. Directions to where she needed to go were unreliable and she
traversed the town several times at one stage in search of a single postage
stamp and a reliable car hire firm.

Boats came and went on the quay all day long and finally a small Greek yacht
came in alongside us with a lot of help from us and any number of others.
They were a family with very little experience and although no damage was
done, there had been a lot of shouting amongst themselves and they had
dropped their anchor over ours. But they were very polite and using their 12
year old daughter as a translator, they apologised for all the fuss and
assured us that they would go out in their dinghy to collect their anchor
when they left in two days time rather than risk disturbing ours. Later in
the evening as Sarah and I sat in the cockpit eating supper, they came over
with a present they had just bought for us from the delicatessen.

Strong northerly winds are forecast for the next few days and given that it
is costing virtually nothing to be here, we plan to stay on a while.