Fw: Starting again!!
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Well, what a year.
Not as we had anticipated, but as
many know we had to change our plans.
Michael’s Dad needed an urgent hip replacement, so we decided to put
everything on hold and leave Nimue in Sant Carles for another
winter.
Nine months
later.................. We arrived back in
Sant Carles mid-May and were ‘over the moon’ to be back on board Nimue......
memories of those long cold winter days back in the UK were soon forgotten,
replaced with dry, warm and sunny days.
The weeks in Sant
Carles seemed to fly by and many in the marina folk used to pass comment “you’re
not still working on the boat”. We were busy preparing Nimue
for the Atlantic and also awaiting new sails and more importantly new
rigging. After my insistence we
also purchased an electric toilet at the London Boat Show, which when Michael
came to install it, turned out to be the wrong one. So after numerous e-mails and
conversations with Mailspeed, we were eventually sent the correct one and our
friends, Cathy and Hugh, kindly took the wrong one by car back to the UK
depot. However, after what seemed
hours of Michael making the necessary alterations to install it, it was quickly
nicknamed ‘spit the bog’ for obvious reasons. Nevertheless, even after sorting out
this further complication, Michael understandably now has a love/hate
relationship with ‘Spit”!! Time even had to
be spent arguing about a refund on a leaking Sevylor canoe, which we had
purchased in the UK on E-bay! But
after quoting all the legal jargon at the seller, we eventually got a full
refund. We also went on ‘holiday’ to Madrid for 4 days to see our good friend Britt, who was nearing the end of a 6 month contract before returning to the UK. We took the train down to Valencia and then onto a further train for 3.5 hours to Madrid. The weather was very inclement (it rained!!!) for the majority of the time we were there, but this facilitated sight-seeing and walking most of Madrid! Anyway we had a great time and our return journey was via good old Ryanair back to Valencia. See separate Madrid write up for pictures.
We set off quietly
from the marina at mid-day on 19th July and headed as we had done in
2009, to The Columbretes islands for some
R&R!! |
