I didn’t post yesterday because I was just too tired. We had quite a good trip to Porto
Vecchio in Corsica. At first we
had a good 17 knot wind on the beam and we were going really well. Then suddenly the wind went down
to 2 knots and just as quickly it turned around in the opposite direction and
increased to 10 knots. Very
fluky. So as the wind was now on
the nose, we wound up motoring for
the second half of the trip. The
weather is lovely and we are quite warm.
So we stop in a little bay on the way to the harbour. We can’t anchor as close in as we would
like, but it is fine and we have a nice swim and some lunch.
Then we make it to the marina.
There is plenty of room and we are directed in to a berth with no
problem. After we check in we
really need to go food shopping.
We have nearly nothing left on the boat in the way of fresh food. So we make it to the closest
supermarket, which is fine and stock up on food for the next three days.
We also have a look around the part of the town near the port. It is quite buzzy and we note that
there is a free concert tonight on the port for the Fete de la Musique which
the French have all over France on every mid-summers night. The plan is to have a drink out, then
dinner and finally listen to the concert.
We have been trying to get in touch with Keith and Pat Boothby, the
parents of friends from the Southerly Owners Association. They have had their boat in Corsica for
a few years now and we have been in e-mail correspondence getting tips from
them about where to go etc. The
e-mail here at the marina is good, so we do finally get in touch and agree to
meet tomorrow.
The evening plans went really well and the concert was terrific. The band was a Latin band playing the
sort of music we really like.
There were also people from the band dancing Salsa and leading the
audience in the dancing. It was so
good even I had a go at a little dance or two. What was really cute were the little kids. There were quite a few children, boys
and girls from about 3 years to 6 years all joining in the dancing and having a
great time.
So back to the boat and bed ready for tomorrow.
We get up fairly early and I go out to the boulangerie to get ‘French
breakfast’. We have a lazy morning
on the boat waiting for the Boothbys.
It is so hot even early in the morning that I have changed into one of
my new sun dresses. We have a nice
chat with Keith and Pat and decide how to deal with the day. They are going to do laundry while we
walk up to the upper town and see the sights.
It is a hot walk up, but the town is very sweet. It is particularly nice because there
is a Sunday market. If I hadn’t
bought so much food yesterday I could have bought a lot, but instead only
bought one jar of Aubergine caviar.
Then back down to the port where we have a light lunch with the
Boothbys.
Technically we should have left our berth by noon, but Richard got the
marina to agree that we could leave late without paying for another night. So the plan now is to go out of the
marina and anchor in the harbour where the Boothbys have their boat anchored. They have a boat much more suited to
this life, with large holding tanks, lots of water and a generator for
electricity. We get to the
anchorage, which is nice. It is so
hot that the first thing we do is swim.
For a change the water does not seem cold!
We have a lovely evening with Keith and Pat on their boat. We have pooled our food and are doing a
barbecue. Despite a fair amount of
wine, Richard manages to row us back to the boat and we get aboard without
mishap. Tomorrow we shall go a
little way up the coast and try some of the anchorages that have been recommended. Our only problem is that our holding
tank keeps showing that it is half filled when we have hardly used it. We really hope that there is not a
problem with the pumping out!
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