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shoelessjourney
Tom & Colette McCorkindale
Sun 5 Nov 2006 16:18

Las Palmas Puerto isn’t the prettiest, with the constant to-ing and fro-ing of container vessels, ferries, cruise liners etc, but it does have the convenience of a big city.  Tom has ventured far and wide on his morning runs and we have so far found the department store equivalent of Selfridges with food hall prices to match – but with a good spread of international products.  We’ll now move downmarket for shopping with visits to  Hyperdino’s and Carrefour around the town.  There are local chandleries vying for your custom and offering 5 – 15% discount on ARC boat tickets.

We have found an electrician further down the pontoon, who will be looking at our wobbly fuses on Monday, plus a fridge engineer has visited to say the broken one is definitely terminal and we just have to hope it (and its co-worker freezer) can be shipped in and replaced before we leave – all chasing work for Monday.

The marina is very basic and all its facilities will suffer from the over-crowding when the rest of the 200+ yachts and their crews start vying for the loos, showers etc. I’ve already had a fruitless trip to the launderette – which has four machines.  A Brit had commandeered two, and was using them in tandem all the way up to the shop closing yesterday lunchtime.

This morning is one for jobs.  I’ve just started de-frosting the upright freezer and we had all electrics off overnight, so we can start measuring our power consumption more accurately.  The good news is that the electrician gave us a thumbs up on what we have in terms of battery power.

We have joined the local “club”, but its suffering from having the slat water pool on top of the shower facilities – the ladies is a very wet place, but at least is a quiet haven for us and our crew (complete with wifi access). 

More anon – with pretty pictures!