Samos, Thursday 30 June 2016

I didn’t sleep well.  I woke up in the night with terrible indigestion.  So we have a fairly late start.  While it is still a bit cooler, I spend the rest of the morning making Ratatouille.  That really makes me hot!  But I now have a good 6-8 portions.  I will feed some to the Luries tomorrow.

I’m afraid this isn’t much of a sailing story as we have decided to stay here in Samos for at least two more days.  But there is some sailing news.  After I finish cooking we go to find the chandlery and supermarket to see to our gas canister.  When we go to the supermarket the lady we saw yesterday says that her canister is the same as ours.  So we hand it to her to swap for a full one when she says the one we have is full!  She even weighs it to prove that it is full of gas.  Neither R nor I can understand it.  We are certain that we decided not to buy new gas bottles to keep on the boat over the winter.  So it is all a real mystery.  Later in the afternoon R puts the “new” bottle on just to convince me that it really is full and it fits our connection.  Which is does, so still an unsolved mystery.

Another hot afternoon on the beach and then back to the boat.  We have a cocktail with Marion at the bar across from the boat.  We feel we must give them business because we have been using their free WIFI which gets to the boat and their toilet for the past two days!

Dinner on board and we are now just cooling down in a brisk breeze.