After a light breakfast we
make our way into the town to see if we can buy something suitable for our
supper on a fasting day. We try
the fish stalls again. There are still very few open, but one has really nice
sea bass, so we buy a fish and will eat it for dinner. After that it is back to the boat. We have to wait in for the diver to
phone. So we make use of the
time. The weather is much improved
and therefore Richard cleans the outside of the boat quite thoroughly. It really was dirty. I do a little inside, but not
much. Finally the diver calls. He cannot come today. He is very apologetic. He is gabbling away in French
explaining why he can’t make it. I
misunderstand the tense of the verb he uses (I never did get on with French
verbs and conjugation). I think he
is telling me he is going on holiday and my heart sinks. When ask if that means he can’t help us
at all he explains he will come tomorrow morning. The problem was that he has just returned from holiday and
has a backlog of work.
So now we have the whole day
and it is nice and sunny. So
finally we go to the beach. We
find a restaurant on the closest beach on this side of the canal which lets out
loungers and umbrellas and set ourselves up. I have nearly run out of reading material. Without the paper to read each day on
my I-Pad, I have read all but one book on my kindle. Richard reminds me that I have a copy of James Joyce’s
Ulysses on board. So I take it to
the beach. This will be my third
attempt at getting through it.
Maybe third time lucky.
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