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Here's how the list looks as at today......
1. Flights back to Malta - Booked 2. Lift-out for Comino - Booked 3. Re-launch for Comino - Booked 4. A place for us to stay whilst Comino is in the boatyard - Sorted 5. Engine 1000 hour service - To be sorted 6. Purchase antifoul - To be sorted 7. Purchase electric orbital polisher - To be sorted 8. Cruising plan for the summer - To be sorted 9. Pack shorts, T-shirts, flip flops and nothing else - Work in progress 10. End of season target destination - Greece Wouldn't it be great if this was the true extent of our planning for the forthcoming summer season. Alas, the maintenance "to do" list already fills two sides of A4, but I guess it's good to get the main priorities down on paper too at this stage. We're both feeling quite excited that there's now an actual date in our diaries for departure...I can practically taste that first cold beer in the sun already!
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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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