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I'm going to put some pictures on the blog tomorrow of our last week here in Rota. However, today I'm doing the final bits of navigation and route planning in prep for our departure on Tuesday. Next stop is Barbate, but to get there we have to round Cabo Trafalgar, a rather fearsome headland surrounded by rocks and reefs. It's also the spot where Nelson met his end in 1805, hence the name. With the chartplotter still not working this will be quite a testing journey and will require the very best of my seamanship skills, using paper charts.
It's also worth mentioning that yesterday we hit 100 degrees for the first time. Much of the afternoon was spent standing up to our necks in the sea trying to stay cool. I kept my sunglasses on at all times, so I'm assuming I looked cool as well! Last night was clearly party night for the youngsters. At four in the morning, I sat in the cockpit with a cold beer watching the many hundreds of people in and around the marina nightclub giving it large. It was impossible to sleep with all that noise, so I felt I'd join them - albeit from a distance. At seven the music finally stopped and the crowds drifted away. We heard that the Spanish authorities allow this mayhem every weekend because youth unemployment is at 50%. If they tried to intervene, they'd have riots on their hands, so better to allow the kids to let off steam. Seems sensible to me - in England the police would rock up with truncheons in hand and wonder why people got stroppy!
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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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