New Year’s Day, 2016. A moment of downtime as we enjoyed a trip to Etna. Just snapshots of the day, as viewed from within the car as we motored along: the good ones will come once the work upon Gratis is completed and we have plenty of time up our sleeve.
Most relaxing. All prep work completed on Christmas Eve. Mushroom soup; roast chicken, spuds and pumpkin; spinach, with chocolate pudding to finish off. Yum!! Went for a drive yesterday arvo to check out whether the Valley of Temples in Agrigento would be worthwhile visiting: it is!!! It requires a full day of focussed tripod photography. […]
The cabin is coming along. Cupboard shelving is being created and the bed base cut. The camera was returned yesterday, so photos will start coming once more.
40 – 50 knots a – blowing here today.
Bob and I were hit by a cold this week: too long away from civilisation, it hit us like a sledgehammer. We have hired a car and are busy running around ordering the wood and so forth. Images are slowly coming along. It’s lovely revisiting, for so much has happened this year that one easily forgets. […]
Bob purchased some hatches for the cockpit storage area the other day. Today has seen him commence sizing the current holes for the covers. A last, no more water can find its way in, and the cockpit is another step closer to looking completed. Tomorrow morning, he heads off to purchase the wood for the […]
It looks as though we are remaining here Marina di Ragusa, Sicily for the winter. With another bombing killing in excess of 70 people, events are hotting up a little too much in Turkey. We are also hearing stories of how the people smugglers are putting refugees into the water for boaties to pick up, then […]
The barometer falling from 1012 to 1004, the wind reached a peak of 43 knots before spending the night blowing in the 30’s. Undergoing a sudden 90 degree change in direction from south to west yesterday morning, within seconds 54 knots went blasting through the marina. Lasting no more than two minutes, the cloud that brought it […]
Gale force winds (34 – 40 knots) here today. Is the wind a howling through the shrouds. For wind speeds and their definitions have a squiz at this page. Have had to place additional mooring lines on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale The prop will be in the courier tomorrow and should arrive here in Marina di Ragusa by Wednesday of […]
Enjoying the break: even managed a swim the other day. Slowly catching up on filling in the blanks in the spiels for the past 12 months. Will still be a while before all on their respectful pages as the photos will be readied to go on with them. Bob is currently epoxying and repairing the […]
Rain and thunder here this morning.
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Two legs could not be any more of a contrast. No wind and the water like glass this time. A front carrying gale force winds of 50+ knots is headed this way. We are waiting it out in one of the many the marinas here in Sicily until the weekend . Images: […]
