Saturday 18 May

Richard spends the morning trying to find someone to fix our heating.  It is freezing and although we can run our fan heater while here in the Marina and hooked up to electricity, we are dreading what we will do over the next few days when we may have to anchor.  Of course the problem is that it is the weekend and no engineers seem to work at the weekends.  We have left messages with the people who installed it in England and a heating engineer here in Guernsey.  We don’t really want to stay around until Monday to find someone.  So we decide to play it by ear and see how we get on.

We do a bit of shopping in the town. The weather is so cold there is no question of my wearing anything but my jeans!  They are getting a real workout!  We find that a new Co-op food market has opened locally which is helpful.  So I now have at least three dinners on board.  

The weather is so nice, that we decide to have a long walk.  We take a no 11 bus to the south of the island.  The bus fares have gone up.  Last time we took a bus here (but that was 8 years ago) it was 50p and now it is £2!  We get off at the end of the line at Fort Grey and walk around the headland.  It is a bit up and down, but a nice walk and it has done wonders for my Fuel on my Nike band.  I think I have done a record number today!

We then walk back to the road.  We find a bus stop right away and Richard looks up the timetable and finds that the hourly bus is due in 15 minutes, which isn’t bad.  So we wait around, and a bus comes but going in the opposite direction.  Nonetheless it stops and tells us to get on board because they have changed the route due to a big football match today between Jersey and Guernsey.  So luckily we make it back to the port.

We are going out to dinner.  We go to a restaurant we have been to at least twice before.  It is called the Absolute End and is a seafood restaurant.  We have a nice dinner there and get persuaded to buy a more expensive bottle of wine.  When we get back we just collapse into bed exhausted.