Tom arrives in style

Serafina
Rob & Sarah Bell
Mon 7 Sep 2009 16:56
Monday 7th September

Quite a noisy night, at least until around 1.00 am and I have to report that
the live band were truly dreadful. Lost count of the songs we could hear
them murder, but I suppose if we could recognise the tunes, it was some sort
of compliment at least.

Busy old morning with various jobs to do and things to buy whilst we are in
a 'proper' town.

Called in a sailmaker (Seagull Sails 0090 532 579 3568) as we are missing a
batten and needed a new one sorted. He was down in a flash and after going
up the mast to view and measure the pocket, he returned in the afternoon to
go up and put the new one in and carry out a temporary repair to the bottom
of the pocket at the same time. He also helpfully brought a second one which
we bought and with some difficulty have managed to store under the saloon
floor (it is 3 metres long).

Tom arrived in some style as we had done a little bit of investigating about
taxi prices from Bodrum International Airport which like so many 'local'
airports, is nowhere near Bodrum! The outcome was that we were able to
engage the services of an Airport Transfer company just by the marina, to go
and fetch Tom from the airport and bring him to the boat for less than a
normal taxi from the airport. Tom was very impressed to be met by a chap
holding up a board with his name on and was then escorted to a gleaming 17
seater bus - which he had all to himself!

Plan now to stay here tomorrow as Tom has a few places he seems to want to
visit, Sarah to gather courage for a haircut and it will allow the gale to
blow through as well.