Croatia

Well we have been in Croatia for 3 weeks now, the temperature has on average been 30 dec C during the day and 16 dec C at night, a slight breeze most days has made it very pleasant but the humidity has been 45% on occasions and that is uncomfortable as you feel constantly damp!! 

However a cold beer in the Marina Bar always helps to bring you back to normal again, well as normal as normal is normally!!

The boat is looking cleaner now, we spent over 2 weeks cleaning the inside and now its time to start on the outside. Too hot during the heat of the day so early morning and late afternoon is the only option. Hence nothing else to do in the day except laze around or take a walk into town to pick up some supplies and, of course, have an obligatory beer in a shady bar, 15 Kuna a half litre about £1.75

At the week ends the town really fills up, car parks full and the tow truck works 24 hours picking up cars with it’s crane and depositing them in the pound, must be making a fortune. The streets are bustling and the restaurants are full of happy sunburned diggers. We have found a couple of back street bars that only serve beer and wine and they stay quiet until the diggers finish their dinners which is when we leave and return to the peace and quiet of the cockpit on the boat.

Come Tuesday the place calms down, the charter boats have gone out sailing and the diggers have gone home or to the beach and the town is very pleasant, the fruit and veg market is open everyday.

The supermarkets have everything we need, well almost everything and nothing we can’t do without. The restaurants have space to eat at any time of the evening and you can walk along the pavements without being barged onto the road by pushchairs, why do parents use them like weapons? 

We haven’t been able to take the boat out for a sail, Dave’s hand has not healed enough yet to handle ropes.  We have checked the instruments though and it looks like a couple of them need to be recalibrated so we will need a couple of days at least to get everything checked out. However in the meantime we have fitted the new water purification system and the Navtex both of which are working fine.

So,  we have found a happy way of living with the change of pace but we are looking forward to the end of summer when it cools down a little and the diggers go home for good,

AND the Geezers Ken & Carole come out to stay with us for a while.  Roll on September 4th  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!