Since we’d planned to stay onboard today anyway, we just stayed in bed then had breakfast and went back to bed.
When we surfaced around mid-morning, the cloudy skies had given way to sunshine, but the beaches were almost deserted; not surprising given the wind. The windsurfers seemed to be the only ones out enjoying the weather. We were delighted and relieved, however, to find that the yacht, which had anchored immediately in front of us last night and was swinging wildly across our bow in the strong winds, had left.
Lunch was an interesting, tasteless experience after discovering that you can’t freeze Italian bread; it was as hard as a rock after being defrosted, forcing Elaine to use the “emergency supply” of processed long-life bread. This together with cheese that was one molecule away from plastic, or indeed one molecule away from cheese, didn’t melt, making for the most peculiar toasted cheese sandwiches.
To keep busy, Elaine completed her efforts on cataloguing all our photographs and getting them ready for upload to our website, realising this hasn’t been done since January; she was clearly a little behind.
Roy spent his day on sewerage duty again; this time on the port holding tank, unblocking one of the pipes. We have no idea why this calcified so quickly, given that the entire sewerage plumbing system was overhauled just before we left Turkey. The only conclusion we’ve come to is that the toilet cleaning product we purchased in Turkey versus using our tried and tested vinegar, was not up to the job. Another lesson learnt.
By 1700 we both had indigestion from our lunch and headaches from the wind, but, with the wind turning more to the northwest, we were hoping that the system was moving through quicker. We’ll know soon enough!
