Thursday 2 October 2014

Thursday 2 October 2014 - Siracusa

I did not post yesterday because from a sailing point of view, there is nothing to report.  It was to just be a day for my birthday celebrations.  The only sailing news was that we had coffee on the Southerly 42 boat we saw yesterday and met Adrian and Pennie, the owners.  They are headed to Malta for the winter, but will be going to Greece as we are next season.  As we know two other Southerly boats in the area we might even be able to arrange a mini - rally next year.

The weather has been sunny and hot.  We went out for a very nice dinner for my birthday and had some interesting food.  The only problem was that I tried a cannoli (special Sicilian sweet) at teatime and it so filled me up that I could hardly face eating dinner!  But we managed and enjoyed ourselves.

Today was devoted to domestic matters.  We found the launderette and left two weeks worth of linens with them to do a service wash.  Then we finally went to the market which is wonderful.  I have stocked up on fresh food for at least 4 days!

The afternoon starts very hot and then suddenly the sky clouds over.  The weather has definitely turned.  We walk into town and get rained on quite a lot.  The forecast for the next few days is for rain.  We really cannot decide what to do, but think we will try to move on tomorrow.  If the forecast is correct we might beat the rain into the next port and then it is only one more hop to Ragusa.  We shall see how it looks tomorrow.


After all these weeks of seeing virtually no other English boats, the marina is now full of them.  The Oyster we met earlier is here and an Island Packet all also headed for Ragusa.  We guess we will start regularly meeting the English contingent now.

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