We set out from Le Castella
just after 8 this morning and found a glassy sea with no wind. So we motored all the way to
Crotone. Crotone is an interesting
town and much better resourced than La Castella. We fill up with fuel on the way in. With all the motoring, especially the
leg from Riposto, we had used up nearly half a tank of fuel. The weather forecast makes it look like
the trip to Cephalonia will also mainly be on motor, so I am glad we could fill
up.
The berth we have is part of
the local yacht club. We are on
new pontoons and have all the facilities we need. There are two washing machines here, which the office is
keen for me to use, but there is no tumble dryer and despite the fact that it
is a lovely hot sunny day, I do not fancy trying to hang out two sets of
linens, six towels and three weeks of underwear all over the rigging. So we go to the laundrette in the town.
The launderette is on the
very opposite side of town and is quite a walk with two heavy bags of dirty
clothes! But worse than that, when
we get there we find they are closed for lunch! We don’t want to drag the washing back and for to the boat
again, so despite the fact that we had planned to have a fasting day today, we
decide to try to find somewhere for a bite of lunch to kill the 90 minutes
until the place re-opens. We have
no luck finding a restaurant or even a lunch bar. All we do find is a very nice café which sells ice cream and
pastries. So instead of dieting we
wind up having cappuccinos and canola (a Sicilian specialty of crisp ginger
snap type pastry filled with sweet ricotta cheese). But it was very nice and we did get to the launderette where
the lady helped me do all the washing despite her not speaking a word of
English and me having about three useful words of Italian!
So we are now ready to make
the journey to Greece tomorrow. We
have decided that as it can take up to 36 hours (though R hopes it will be more
like 30 hours) we need to start very
early, say 6am. So I will have to
do all the food preparation as we go.
I have put on a sea sickness patch and hope that gets over any nasty
water.
I will be in touch when we
make landfall.
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