Helen: Thought we´d be gone by now...but we´re still here. Our skipper doesn´t like doing anything in a hurry, which is a bit annoying as we feel like we´re done here already and want to get going. Specially as we have a new plan forming... We think there is a very strong possibility that we might have had enough of sailing (especially sailing other people´s boats) by the time we get to NZ. One bit of sea, and for that matter, one island, looks pretty much like another, and we´re not really into the cruising lifestyle - lots of sitting on your boat looking at pretty views or moaning to other yachties about how long it takes/expensive it is to get parts. So...the inkling of a new plan that´s forming in our minds is that we might ditch boats in favour of bikes when we get down under. If Euan McGregor can do it, don´t see why we can´t. So, I´m just sitting here looking up what the weather´s like in Bejing, Nepal, Bombay, Cairo, Istanbul, Croatia, Vienna, Moscow, Sweden and Denmark, trying to plot a route that gets us where we want to go at the right times of year to avoid snow, big winds and lots of rain. We spent ages looking at a map of the world the other day and decided that the only way to avoid major war zones was to ship the bike from India to Egypt. We´ve had enough bad luck already without deliberately putting ourselves in harms way!
As for our immediate adventures here - we went snorkelling this morning in a lovely fresh water pool (kinda crevice in the rocks really) and have just had ice creams. Afraid it´s not much more exciting than that just now! We did, however, find the weekly fruit and veg market yesterday, which was a relief as otherwise we thought we were going to have to live off tinned food for the next month. Not an appetizing prospect.
Will write again when we can
H & Cxx
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