PORTOSIN

PORTOSIN
Having decided it was time to move, we started to get the boat ready. The plan was to get the bread on the Monday morning and then toddle over to Portosin later in the day. However, it started to rain, and Dave is allergic to rain now ( I don’t much fancy it either). Then the wind got up, so we decided tomorrow would be better. Tomorrow came and if anything was worse than the day before – thumbs down on that day too. Wednesday came and went as the weather was windy and rainy. By now we were low on just about everything as the dinghy had been put up on the boat on Monday, and we weren’t in the mood to put it out again in the rain. Then the water ran out of the tanks and we had to dig the bottled stuff out. So it had to be Thursday. Thursday morning was overcast but fine. So quick bowl of cereal and we were off to Portosin. We managed to get over and sorted out, up to town for bread for lunch before the rain came. That saw us lugging the washing to the laundry in the wet, and was it wet!
So here we are and there is wi-fi so there is blog.
The plan is to fuel up tomorrow and leave the following day or so to continue further down the coast to Bayona, with a couple of overnight anchors on the way.
Portosin is a little marina in part of a fishing port. The fishing boats here tend to be on the large side as they are built to go out into the Atlantic. They are supposed to slow down when they come in, but usually it is at warp factor 9 and we get to bounce about a bit. We have been followed over by another English couple who are not best impressed by the rainy weather – we are just calling it Mull weather and know it will get back to being roasting again. The marina girls are excellent and speak English, French and German fluently. They are also having a laugh trying to help me learn some more Spanish. The laundry was a trial though, took forever as I had saved it all up till we got here. From now on it will be was a we go!
The little village ia bout a mile away and has the basic little shops. I am still trying to find a post office as I have some snail mail to send. To all of you who have sent e-mail by MMVY5@sailmail,com I give you many thanks as it is such a pleasure to get news form you all.

Saturday - Still raining can you believe. Tobermory again but a bit warmer