Muros Monday
Thursdays Child
Robin & Joanna Minchin
Mon 15 Sep 2014 20:31
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Rain all night and then lots of wind today so we are feeling justified in waiting here at this anchorage.
SO happy to have found a Book Shop selling a Spanish/English dictionary, now I can see why the olives I bought had stones in, that my snorkelling fins which cost 'quince' meant I got some change from a 50 Euro note, and hopefully I can buy beef and lamb and not get back to the boat to find I've bought pork. Wonderful!
The prawn trap isn't proving very successful, more revolting snails, and the dog food is beginning to smell! Harry hasn't given up though and will try again in the morning in a different spot.
We have 20 blank courtesy flags, one for each country we visit which is flown up the mast. The plan is to colour them in ourselves ~ a nice little activity to keep small minds and hands busy. As we have a Portuguese courtesy flag, Harry began the Cape Verde courtesy flag today.
Isabelle is really getting stuck into her Enid Blyton book which is great news, in fact last night she and I were both tucked up in my bunk reading until about midnight as neither of us could put our books down! Magic. And as I write Harry is lying in his bunk reading his next Michael Morpurgo book; if they can discover the joy of books on this trip, then that will be a real mission accomplished... yes the bedtime routine is totally out of the window!