Puerto Sherry
05/09/07 18:48 Filed in: Spain - Andalucia
The weather forecast was ominous. Force 7 and gale force 8 east to south east winds. I had considered doing a shakedown sail in the Bay of Cadiz but we won't be going anywhere today.
Still no sign of my two packages although I received e-mails confirming both had been sent over a week ago.
Much of the day was spent familiarising Tomas with the boat and we collected the repaired sprayhood and new sail cover and sun awning from Velas Climent. On time and on budget. I'm a happy customer and I also bought 6m of awning fabric from them.
Later we went into El Puerto de Santa Maria to say goodby to friends who were leaving. Then we went to an internet cafe to do some printing. I needed to print 16 pages. The cafe was windows only so I had to e-mail the documents to myself, access them online using a Windows computer, and then print each document.
What a nightmare. What would have taken a couple of minutes on the Mac took an hour and a half on Windows. Each document had to be put through a horrible piece of software called, I think, Microsoft Photo Editor. Yuk!
On the way back our taxi driver recommended a good bicycle shop where I was able to buy new brake pads for the Brompton. Fitting these eliminated the screech when braking.
In the evening we tried out an Italian restaurant, Blanca Paloma, quite close to the marina. We won't be going back
Still no sign of my two packages although I received e-mails confirming both had been sent over a week ago.
Much of the day was spent familiarising Tomas with the boat and we collected the repaired sprayhood and new sail cover and sun awning from Velas Climent. On time and on budget. I'm a happy customer and I also bought 6m of awning fabric from them.
Later we went into El Puerto de Santa Maria to say goodby to friends who were leaving. Then we went to an internet cafe to do some printing. I needed to print 16 pages. The cafe was windows only so I had to e-mail the documents to myself, access them online using a Windows computer, and then print each document.
What a nightmare. What would have taken a couple of minutes on the Mac took an hour and a half on Windows. Each document had to be put through a horrible piece of software called, I think, Microsoft Photo Editor. Yuk!
On the way back our taxi driver recommended a good bicycle shop where I was able to buy new brake pads for the Brompton. Fitting these eliminated the screech when braking.
In the evening we tried out an Italian restaurant, Blanca Paloma, quite close to the marina. We won't be going back