When we wake up
this morning it is pouring with rain.
So that decides it. We are
not going anywhere today. So it
will be a leisure day. We spend
the morning wandering around the town trying to get our bearings. We work out where the supermarket is
and some of the other shops.
Eventually we find the tourist office. They help us work out what there is to see and recommend an
ice cream and pastry shop. So we
take their advice and before going back to the boat for lunch we have delicious
coffee granitas with cream! Very evil.
Now that it is
lunchtime, the weather has cleared up a lot and it has got very hot. I can barely endure it. There is no swimming beach (although
there is a beach lounge area in the marina). So we stay on the boat in bathing costumes and spray
ourselves down with the hose on the pontoon from time to time.
But we cannot
laze too much because we must climb another steep hill to see another citadel! It is a long hot walk, and climb, but
we make it. It is an interesting
building. Obviously at some stage
it was used as a prison, but there are also a few restored rooms.
We rush back via
the supermarket to do the last of the shopping and then to the boat to get
ready to go out to dinner. We have
a pleasant meal, but rather boozy.
This is mainly because they keep serving us free Spritzes. We are also now told how to make this
drink. It is half Apersol (which
we have seen in the shops, but do not know if it contains any alcohol) and half
prosecco, filled with ice and toped up with soda water! As we are finishing our dinner in the
garden, it starts to rain! We
weren’t expecting this. I have a
small umbrella in my bag left over from this morning. That is a bit of help, but I am wearing
sandals which get soaked and my dress gets quite damp. But poor Richard has nothing and is
pretty wet when we get back to the boat, despite taking shelter in every
doorway and under every overhang on the way home.
The boat is
rocking a lot and it is very warm, especially as we can’t open the hatches
because of the rain, so we just collapse into bed.
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