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Budva - Passport control is only available until 10pm. but we needed to leave at 5am, dilemma! but the marine receptionist arranged everything, saying to me "I will learn you how to deal with port police. Tell them that you are leaving at 10pm, then no problem, just leave in the morning when you like, but before they are back on duty"
Most expensive laundry, €60 for 12kgs, but incredibly clean, dry and ironed. Now we have spare clean sheets you must come and join us.
The Borra isn't discussed much, but it can be very nasty with 70kts winds. A professionally skippered catamaran came in next to us, with some damage to the starboard side and stern. They said that they were being pushed into a quay by the Borra, They had to borrow fenders from the port, through the night they burst 20 fenders. The mooring fee at Budva of €55 per night seems good value now, especially as the marina were late with the laundry so gave us another night free.
Sarande - Our agent's assistant Julia, asked if we needed anything, and as fuel is said to be available in the port, we asked for 70ltrs to be delivered in the morning. That evening Agim (our agent) arrived at the quay with 48 ltrs of diesel in two cans, telling me that it was easier in the evening, and that the only way to get fuel in Sarande is from the gas station in town, how bizarre!
Corfu - We were anchored in the bay under the byzantine fort, an amazingly beautiful place. We had heard some PA testing in the afternoon and though little of it, but later we had a great evening of music.
Desperate for a good internet link we decided to get mobile wifi. Not so easy, to get a monthly contract you have to have a Greek tax number. We were told that it is like a social security number, which of cause it isn't, you have to do a tax return each year. So it was very lucky that we couldn't do it, something about needing an MP to approve it. We later met a lovely Swiss couple who said that they were told the same but met a friendly advocate at the municipal offices, who helped them, so they do have a mobile wifi contract, but now have to fill in a tax return for the Greeks each year!
Downside - Mossy bites
Upside - Tuna jumping next to the boat
Sivota - Italian being asked something in English replied "Please speak slowly, I'm not from Nottingham!"
The only place in the Adriatic where we can buy Marmite
After spraying the port locker with Oust for the last week, we finally found the bag off prawn shells that had dropped out of sight!
Budva - Passport control is only available until 10pm. but we needed to leave at 5am, dilemma! but the marine receptionist arranged everything, saying to me "I will learn you how to deal with port police. Tell them that you are leaving at 10pm, then no problem, just leave in the morning when you like, but before they are back on duty"
Most expensive laundry, €60 for 12kgs, but incredibly clean, dry and ironed. Now we have spare clean sheets you must come and join us.
The Borra isn't discussed much, but it can be very nasty with 70kts winds. A professionally skippered catamaran came in next to us, with some damage to the starboard side and stern. They said that they were being pushed into a quay by the Borra, They had to borrow fenders from the port, through the night they burst 20 fenders. The mooring fee at Budva of €55 per night seems good value now, especially as the marina were late with the laundry so gave us another night free.
Sarande - Our agent's assistant Julia, asked if we needed anything, and as fuel is said to be available in the port, we asked for 70ltrs to be delivered in the morning. That evening Agim (our agent) arrived at the quay with 48 ltrs of diesel in two cans, telling me that it was easier in the evening, and that the only way to get fuel in Sarande is from the gas station in town, how bizarre!
Corfu - We were anchored in the bay under the byzantine fort, an amazingly beautiful place. We had heard some PA testing in the afternoon and though little of it, but later we had a great evening of music.
Desperate for a good internet link we decided to get mobile wifi. Not so easy, to get a monthly contract you have to have a Greek tax number. We were told that it is like a social security number, which of cause it isn't, you have to do a tax return each year. So it was very lucky that we couldn't do it, something about needing an MP to approve it. We later met a lovely Swiss couple who said that they were told the same but met a friendly advocate at the municipal offices, who helped them, so they do have a mobile wifi contract, but now have to fill in a tax return for the Greeks each year!
Downside - Mossy bites
Upside - Tuna jumping next to the boat
Sivota - Italian being asked something in English replied "Please speak slowly, I'm not from Nottingham!"
The only place in the Adriatic where we can buy Marmite
After spraying the port locker with Oust for the last week, we finally found the bag off prawn shells that had dropped out of sight!
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