This will include the EPIRB, after getting confirmation that the battery can be replaced in England, and in turn meant another trip across the border to Gibraltar today, to post it.
However, deciding he’d had enough of yacht maintenance for one day yesterday, we then took a walk to the beachfront on the Mediterranean side of La Linea de la Concepción. Unfortunately, this proved to be our least favourite promenade in Spain, although there was clearly a lot of construction work underway, which will probably improve the area significantly.
From there we walked into the centre of the town and found lovely pedestrianised walkways, lined with cafés, restaurants, bars and shops.
Stopping at Okay Café, we enjoyed a coffee and baked delight, selected from the “panaderia”, before purchasing a nice freshly baked baguette to take with us.
Our return walk got us back to the marina much faster, putting the town centre, and all its amenities, within easy reach. From what we saw, it looks like the nightlife could be quite festive too.
Back onboard, Elaine continued her efforts on cataloguing photographs and videos, in the hope of getting some of the latter completed during our downtime, although downtime is proving to be much less than we originally envisaged, given our growing new To Do List.
Case in point, it was Elaine’s Friday morning alarm to take one of her medications that woke her this morning. That was our cue to get up, have breakfast and cross the frontier once again.
Having found the stationery shop, purchased the box and filling we needed to wrap the EPIRB, repeated the Post Office drill, we were in and out in no time at all. Then, deciding to enjoy a coffee away from the madding crowd this time, we made a beeline for the waterfront, surprised to find a much quieter, less crowded, cleaner area with gardens and numerous cafés and restaurants. Choosing to sit outside at the Boardwalk Café proved to be a much nicer setting and far more relaxing than the previous venues we’d chosen and we were delighted to realise there were, in fact, areas of Gibraltar we could enjoy once we move Paw Paw there towards the end of this month.
Back onboard, Roy refitted the head (aka toilet) in the port aft head (aka bathroom), knowing, though, that it still required further maintenance once we returned with the necessary parts in September.
Then, while Elaine napped, Roy took a walk to try and sort out our propane issue, which has plagued us through the entire Mediterranean since leaving Türkiye; we can’t get our tanks filled. With a possible solution in mind, he then stopped at a grocery store to purchased a few top up provisions on his way back to Paw Paw, before enjoying a nap himself.
A final perusal of all the ARC Handbook material and our newly collated To Do List, overlaid with our planned departure date to Morocco and onwards to the Canary Islands, revealed the fact that we’ll continue to be a tad busy for the next few weeks. Such is life on a yacht!
