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Today is our last day on Comino for a while as we fly home tomorrow for who knows how long. After five wonderful months aboard we've decided to visit the good old UK to catch up with family and friends. This week we've been putting the boat to bed for the winter, which involves removing the sails plus all the other various bits of canvas. She now looks rather bare but the sun doesn't stop shining here and it eventually destroys anything that's fabric. Comino will now stay on her mooring at La Linea until next April, when we'll set off again into the Med. Until then she'll be a floating home in the marina as we come back and forth. We spoke to James at home the other day and he's now frantically doing five months worth of washing up ready for our arrival. Worryingly, we had to remind him where the Dyson is kept !!! I also gleaned that there is not one clean towel, sheet or quilt cover in the place so it looks like the first day or so will be all about washing. We have so many happy memories of this first leg of our sailing adventure and we're already excited about the next instalment. Swimming off the back of the boat in the Med has been a dream of ours for a very long time. In the meantime my biggest worry is shoes and socks. For so long now it's been flip flops or bare feet.... even going out in the evenings. Perhaps I'll just carry on that way in England regardless of the weather !!!
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3/10/2012 10:18:26 am
Those 'bear' feet might look a bit Grizzly after a winter with no socks in the UK.
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A FEW PICS OF COMINOClick a photo to enlarge and use side arrows to scroll through.
COMINO IS CURRENTLY HEREDID SOMEONE SAY SEAFOODOn our journey from Portugal to Greece we enjoyed amazing seafood almost everywhere we stopped. Finding the local fish market was always a priority because seafood was so plentiful and so reasonably priced. And, the displays were a feast for your eyes.
Locating a market sometimes meant pounding the pavements in searing heat, but if you kept your eyes peeled, you often came across a little clue. The pic below was a rather less than subtle advert for a fish market - it was eight feet tall.
Freshly cooked onboard, a plateful of giant prawns, baked in wine and garlic, washed down with a few glasses of local vino, was like heaven. Watching the sunset on the boat eating a meal like that was the epitome of "living the dream".
Now we're in Greece we've another favourite to savour. I'm talking about fried Calamari. It's usually good, but every now and then it's off-the-scale fantastic. At Natalie's Taverna on Kontokali Beach in Corfu, it was nothing short of epic.
We're based in Lefkas now and It's been a bit of a mission to find somewhere just as good. And we have. Rakias is a mere ten minute walk from the marina and this little fish market, with its very own taverna attached, is quite sensational.
Oh...and it's also worth mentioning that, on occasions, a bit of barbequed Octopus is on the menu at some of the tavernas we frequent. Can I resist....no. SUNSETS AND DRAMATIC SKIESNo filters, or any other monkey business, have been used to enhance these images.
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