Well, we are still
here. Not written much because there
is not too much to say. After two
days the engineers told us that the part we need was not available anywhere in
Italy and they have to send to the UK for it! At first they said it would take 8 days! After a bit of persuading them that
there must be a faster way to getting it here, they said it should arrive next
Monday or Tuesday. We tried to
source the part from the firm in the Hamble that used to do all the work on the
engine, but they cannot get one here any quicker. It does not help that the bank holiday intervenes. So being stuck here on a two week
Sicilian holiday we did not plan for, we hired a car and went away for one
night. We really have toured most
of Sicily before, but we found a few hill towns we did not know including Enna
and Scicli. All quite cute. Then we went back to Noto, which we didn’t
see very well last year.
Back on the boat we tried to
find a launderette. Richard
scoured the internet and found two places that were a bit far away, but perhaps
we could manage by taking the car there and a taxi back. However, it all turned into a wild
goose chase and we never found anywhere.
So I have put one set of linens and towels into the marina laundry
service at more or less hotel prices and horror of horror I did hand
washing! That is my real
bugbear. I hate it. But I needed some underwear, so needs
must. If we ever get out of here,
the next two places we plan to get to are supposed to have laundry facilities,
but I suspect that will be washing machines only, meaning I will have to drape
the boat in wet linens!
Tomorrow we are going to go
to Catania by train to do a bit more sightseeing. I will resume again when we have any more interesting
sailing news.
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