Thursday 26^th May

Rather a slow start to the day with Trevor and I seeking to solve the problems with the non working radar and starboard nav light. We checked all the connections and generally fiddled around to no avail and then suddenly for absolutely no reason at all the radar was working perfectly. We turned our attention to the light and found that it was working too. This was a poor outcome in many ways as although we are pleased they work OK, we have no idea why they let us down and have to assume that they may well fail again.

Sarah went off to find a hairdresser and Trevor and Lesley went to explore the town and returned in the early afternoon with a hire car. We all jumped in and went for a drive in the mountains behind Girne, heading east to see some of Northern Cyprus. Went paddling in the sea and had ice creams before returning via a Lemur superstore to stock up on groceries.

Elected to have a quiet night in, playing Mexican Train again whilst having an informal wine tasting of several bottles bought from the supermarket with a view to deciding which ones to get a stock of in at the very good prices here. The only catch was that the boat was raided by loads of mosquitos and regardless of how many we killed, and we killed a lot, they just kept appearing from somewhere. We checked and rechecked every possible way in but it was just hopeless and by the time we went to bed we had despatched perhaps as many as 50 and had all developed something of a nervous tick which involves slapping yourself seemingly at random. This could prove embarrassing if we are still like this in the morning!