2014 Blog – Part 2
Monday 1 September
So we are off back to Rome to get the
boat. The journey was not one of
the best. The plane was an hour
late (that’s Heathrow for you), and it took 50 minutes for our last bag to
arrive on the carousel. I would
have really been in a panic if half the plane wasn’t with us waiting for
bags. Richard remarked that we
must remember we are in Italy!
We get an overpriced taxi to the
boat. The weather is not
great. We even get a few spots of
rain on us as we unload the taxi.
But the real problem, which we knew about before we left, is the
wind. It is forecast to be gusting
a 7-9! So we know we are not going
anywhere tomorrow.
With the high winds there is a great deal
of chop even in the harbour, to the extent that after an hour below unpacking
suitcases I don’t feel so well. So
we go off to the town. When we
were last here, we hadn’t much time, so we never saw the beach. We walked down and had a drink watching
the sunset. It was so windy we
couldn’t put our glasses down for fear they would blow over!
Not wanting to go back to the boat and
having no fresh food on board we had dinner out. It was quite nice, an oven backed flat fish (they call it
turbot, but it was too small for a real turbot). So when we got back to the boat, we just collapsed into bed
and slept for 10 hours!
Tuesday 2 September
In the middle of the night I woke up and
felt seasick with the rocking of the boat. I had to take a pill!
Must get my sea legs.
By the time we got up, the rocking was
much reduced. We go over to the
office, where the man who helped us moor when we got here (and who doesn’t
speak a word of English) shows us a program on his phone which tracks the state
of the sea. He is telling us that
there is a very large sea running and it will not really go down until
Thursday! So we are stuck,
certainly today.
We do shopping and provision the
boat. We find a phone shop that
does Vodafone and top up our internet device and my Italian phone sim. My phone is working, but the internet
device is not! We cannot get it to
get the internet. It is as if we
had run out of credit, but we just put 50 Euros on it. We go back to the shop, but they cannot
explain why it won’t work. They do
show Richard on the computer that the credit is on the sim. So we have no internet! In the circumstances I don’t know when
anyone will read this. We did stop
at a café and download some e-mails and the Times on their free wifi, but now
are back on the boat and unconnected.
Richard is working on our itinerary for
the next week. We shall probably
only go back to Porto Turistico di Roma at Ostia tomorrow. The alternative is a 30 mile trip to Anzio
or Nettuno with no harbours to stop on the way and if the seas are still high
this is uninviting.
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