Despite having all the time in the world we were
up fairly early. We had breakfast
on board and then get ready to go up to the town. The idea is to do the walking around this morning before it
gets too hot. Richard has found
that there is a Vodafone shop in town and we may need it to top up our internet
device. Before we do that we check
the thing and it works! So Richard
must have got really clever and managed to top it up on line (in Italian).
Having solved the internet problem we don’t
really need to go up to the town.
We really saw much of it last night. But we have paid for two nights and may as well do a
thorough job. So we make our way
back up the 200 steps to the town.
The only thing we really missed yesterday was the Cathedral. It is very ancient and apparently
interesting. It is very plain, but
curious. It is in two styles, one
older than another. After that we
wander around some of the newer parts of town we haven’t seen before. It is getting very hot, so we
stop for a drink and decide to have coffee granita - quite good for a hot
morning. We try to find a
supermarket, but see nothing very big and nothing that sells fresh semi-skimmed
milk. We go in to the tourist
office, but they don’t help much with information about Stromboli. However we find a lady on one of the
computers and she is much more helpful.
The volcano is always active and always pours lava into the sea. You have to go to the opposite side of
the island from the anchorages to see it.
So we shall see how we get on.
We finally find a shop and indeed it sells fresh
milk. So we buy that and some of
the local famous red onions. We
still can’t find any salted butter, so we will have to use the sweet butter I
bought the other day.
It is still fairly early and we want to get to
the beach so we go for lunch. We
decide it is time to have a pizza.
The restaurant are very nice and put our milk in their cold drinks
fridge, so it won’t go off before we get it back to the boat. Well, it was too much to eat. Between that and the heat I begin to feel
rather odd. So we make our way
back down the stairway to the harbour.
On the way back I feel so bad I don’t want to walk all the way back to
the boat and then to the beach. So
I go on to the beach and Richard goes back to the boat to put away the shopping and to get our bathing
suits. I cannot get us beach
chairs because I have no money on me!
So instead I sit in the café in the shade and feel quite
comfortable. Richard arrives and
gets us chairs and we have a nice few hours on the beach regularly going into the
water to cool off. By the middle
of the afternoon it has clouded over, but it is still very warm so we stay on
the beach until nearly 5:00pm.
While we are in this marina I decide to use
their laundry facilities to get a bit ahead with the washing. So we spend the early evening doing
laundry, having showers and reading our books while waiting for the washing to
get done. But it feels good to have
got that out of the way. We also
go to the café and have a couple of drinks and then back to the boat.
We had thought of going back in to the town
where there a more free concerts, but we are feeling lazy and decide not
to. We shall have an early night
instead. I am still not hungry and
it is too hot to cook much. So I
just make us cheese omelette with tomato salad for supper and that is
enough. While we are eating dinner
there is great excitement on the pontoon.
Someone has fallen off their passerelle into the water. We don’t go to find out the details
because there are frankly plenty of people there helping. However it seems suspiciously like what
happened to me the other night. It
still can’t believe I didn’t go into the water on that occasion.
A 50 foot Dufour from Prague has just moored
next to us. It is a very tight
fit. Hope we can get out without
trouble tomorrow.
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