And back to Bodrum.

Serafina
Rob & Sarah Bell
Sun 13 Sep 2009 19:05
37:02.0N 27:25.4E

Saturday 12th September

Pretty dreadful night, with thunder and lightning and some torrential rain,
about 3" of it in the bottom of our bucket. Added to which the wind went
round to the east and set up a very uncomfortable swell in Kos harbour.

Saturday itself was a mixed day and although predominantly sunny and warm,
we did get quite a few heavy showers, particularly in the morning. Tom and I
decided to have a go on some segways (if you don't know what they are...try
google) and we went along at 4.00 pm for a one hour trip, but they were
understaffed right then and offered to come and collect us both from the
harbour at 6.00 pm. We agreed to this, but by 6.00 pm the black rain clouds
had returned and we called the whole thing off.

Sunday 13th September

Heading back to Bodrum today, but had to wait until they confirmed they had
a berth for us first. Met the owner of a large yacht that was moored a
little way up the quay from us as he was planning on coming into the slot
next to us, but because of the wind, he wanted to lay his anchor across
where ours was. He was happy to wait until we left in one hour, but seemed
intent on spending that hour conducting a one-sided 'conversation' with me,
better described as a monologue. It had started quite interestingly as he
had owned a very nice Najad yacht that we had passed on the way in. He now
appeared to have several yachts and his company owns the 'Sir Winston
Churchill' which was a sail training tall ship in the UK originally. He
paused briefly to ask where we lived and this was the cue for a second
lengthy discourse on the subject of Worcester, Morris Minors and flying (he
has a plane) and at some stage along the way he felt it was important to
stress that his 'niece' was with him on board at the moment acting as his
secretary.

Finally got Serafina ready and we picked up the anchor and sailed off
towards Bodrum. The wind picked up well and we had a very enjoyable reach
across the gulf with Sarah once again switching the courtesy flags midway.

The clouds over the Turkish mainland cleared soon after we arrived and we
had a very nice afternoon there plus (thank you God) a boat load of
Australians moored two boats up from us. Funny how disinterested they can
get with cricket from time to time!

Went out for Tom's last proper meal in Turkey and returned to await to hear
which live band we have serenading us tonight.