We are in Italy! We woke a
little late, neither of us sleeping well with this rotten cold. But the sun is out and the weather
forecast is much better. The wind
is in the west for a change, so it will not be on the nose.
We aren’t going far. We
just want to get to San Remo, only 14 miles away. The sailing conditions are fine. The wind is behind, so we are on a run, but with a nice
constant force 4 we are doing 5-6 knots most of the way. There is still a bit of a swell, but
much much better than it was on Monday or what it looked like from the shore
for the past two days.
Richard tried to reserve a place in San Remo. They have an e-mail system, but it didn’t work. One e-mail address said that the
mailbox was full and the other just didn’t reply. I guess we will have to get used to Italian
inefficiency. Having said that, it
is probably unfair, because they were very organised when we got here. We were making our way to a mooring
just outside the Harbour office when someone came out and directed us to a
pontoon where one of the men from the harbour was waiting to show us our space
and take our lines.
The marina is huge and the most expensive so far. But we were warned that this part of
Italy is very expensive. The
showers and toilets are about half a mile away (only one block for this whole
place). But it won’t make much
difference for only one night.
We have a walk into the town.
We really want to get set up with phone and internet here in Italy. So we go to a Vodafone shop and buy me
a sim card for my phone. We cannot
just change sim cards for the internet device because they are all locked to
work only in one country with one provider. So we buy another one.
If you can read this Richard has set it up successfully.
We have been lazy other than for our walk into town. My cold is improving, but Richard is
still in a pretty bad way. So we
have our light supper on board and just hole up in the cabin for the
evening. Tomorrow we are not going
far, so we can take it easy.
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