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People sailing around the Med all say the same thing about the unusual weather this year. April was normal but May was still rather unsettled; June was unexpectedly tolerable heat wise; July was hot but very windy; August, particularly the last two weeks, has been really hot……and I mean hot. Some days have been excessively humid too. Not wishing to be crude, but all you can do is sit around sweating like a proverbial pig!
Anyway, being on a boat means you can head for a bay and spend the day in the sea floating around on a noodle keeping cool. And that's what we've been doing mostly. However, yesterday whilst at anchor in Spinola Bay (St Julians) something a bit different happened. There we were bobbing up and down minding our own business when a ruddy great big tug boat arrived towing a large flat barge, which it plonked into place not more than 100 yards away from us. It's the fireworks barge for this weekends St Julians Fiesta and the container on-board, together with the boxes, have enough explosives in them to obliterate half of Malta. The St Julians fireworks displays on Saturday and Sunday are both supposed to be real show stoppers. I said to Nicky, how brilliant it was that we could stay at anchor for another couple of days and watch the pyrotechnic extravaganza go off right above our heads. However, when I woke up this morning, after a rather swelly night in the bay, I looked at the barge and thought... do I really want to be that close to the action. I asked Nicki her opinion and we both agreed…NO WE DON'T. So, we're now back in the marina and our plan is to walk round to St Julians to watch the fireworks from a safe distance on the shore.
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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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