Shopping , Day 11, November 10^th 2010

This day today was meant to be mainly shopping day. Well we did shop ½ of a Lidl store 15 min away from the harbor, but the morning became an obsession for Gunnar and me to repair the dinghy. We took the motor from each other like the good old moped days when going on a moped repair teenage school in the evening back in the 80’ies. In the end it started to work better but not complete to our satisfactory but time was over noon and we had to move towards the shopping as we needed to fill up proper provision for what could end up in 10 days on the seas. More than 80L of drinking water, soft drinks, coffee, milk, tea, 8 bottles of wine, pack of beer, vegetables, fruits, sausages, cereals, bread, rice, pasta, can food,  and a ton of snack such as chocolate, cakes, biscuits and you name it. This was just apart from what was already have inhouse the boat. It was not empty at all, so no wonder we joked about starting up a restaurant in Cape Verde - Two big carry wagons and then some – still the total price ended at €155,- which was super over big-time-Lidl-cheating-yourself-cheap. We got on a Mercedes taxi home which was pointing its nose pretty much up heavens and was stock a little in some traffic due to high waves banging in on the shore with such a power that it reached the road and had caused an accident – mighty power!
The rest of the afternoon was filled out with checking safety things, self steering system, preparing sails, checking lights etc.
To accompany our dinner we decided to test a bottle of some cheap table wine we had bought – read less than €1,- per bootle! It turned out to be über nice to that price. Not bad at all. Actually so good that Sheilah began to talk to the fishes;) No, she apparently loves fish and they were suddenly jumping around the boat… maybe because some chicken had “fallen” down from dinner;)

We were invited to Dorthe and Jespers Swan 43 food boat – beauty – and ended a new mighty fine day in a good and cosy company with wine and good stories.