Happy New Year!
DecaDance's Web Diary
Chris White and Jeanna Coleman
Sun 2 Jan 2011 18:20
Position: 28:51.43N 013:49.01W
- Marina Rubicon, Lanzarote
Happy New Year to all our blog followers.
We've posted some photos of our Christmas at sea on FaceBook - just make friends
with Deca Dance to have a look (it's easier than posting on the
blog).
Our New Year's Eve was a pretty quiet affair, just the two of
us for a meal, but there were plenty of fireworks throughout the course of the
night to liven things up a bit. We haven't yet found the liveaboard /
local community here - if there is one, and that's one thing we really miss
about Lagos. We're also missing friends and family and modern jive
venues.
We've settled into life in the sun nicely now and the tan is
gradually covering the bruises from the bumpy journey down here.
Chris's chest and back still have a long way to go to catch up with his brown
face, neck and arms, but there's less of a glare now. It's lovely to sit
in the cockpit to eat our meals, although the german with the huge man-boobs on
the next boat along does tend to put one off one's cornflakes.
As I'm sure is the case for many people, the New Year sees us
with a financial hangover and we're seriously tightening our belts until we get
some charter business or sell a kidney - reasonable offers for either will be
carefully considered. It's no hardship eating on board, in fact it's very
pleasant (if you sit with your back to saggy german), and we're looking forward
to finally christening the barbeque. I'm saving a few more Euros
today by shunning the launderette and using our washing machine, which, not to
put too fine a point on it, is crap. I already have arms like Popeye from
flushing the on-board heads (toilets), palms like a brickie from handling all
the ropes, and now I'll have wrists like an arm-wrestler from wringing out the
washing. The upside is that we no longer need socks and thermal tops and
fleeces so once dry they'll be packed away for a long time.
Whilst I've been playing washer-woman, Chris has been fixing
things, cleaning the heads and polishing anything shiny on board - he's like a
magpie. The outside of the boat is gleaming but we've got quite a bit to
do to organise everything inside still - ah well, we've got all the time in the
world to do it... |