We’ve spent the last four days in Almerimar,
a beautiful and astonishingly cheap marina on the Costa del Sol. We didn’t
intend to be here – it just happened to be the closest place we could get
repairs done on our sickly dinghy outboard. As luck would have it, we squeezed
in next to a yacht named Wraith owned
by Vicky and Jeff Vidler, veteran Aussie cruisers of 12 years or so, so we’ve
been enjoying their company and their wealth of knowledge and experience of sailing
throughout the Mediterranean.
With 900 berths and good facilities, there
is a very active cruising community here. Many yachts are here for the winter,
some locked up but many with their crews living aboard for all or part of the
off-season. Lots of pleasant cafes, a range of restaurants and shops and plenty
of activities such as quiz nights (Team Down Under managed a creditable second
place despite the English bias of the questions), barbecues, trips to markets
and interesting historical sites, and of course the daily radionet on the VHF.
Vicki and I had an enjoyable day out at the
huge market in Roquetas , successfully negotiating the
bus journey and returning laden with new towels (two for five euros), clothes
(I bought a dress for ONE euro!), fruit and interesting bit and pieces.
The motor is working, the weather is
looking good and we’re planning a good long sail to Ibiza or, if the wind
holds, onwards towards Pantaleria, between Sicily and Tunisia.
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