I am not sure what has
happened but this post seems to have disappeared from the blog. I guess I did something wrong, I have no idea
what. I really am a blog ignoramus! Anyway here it is again, a few days out of
sync, written on 9th April.
What a beautiful day - summer
has arrived! It was about 20 degrees,
brilliant sunshine, not a cloud in the sky and not a breath of wind.
Ian has got through a lot of
chores in the past few days. Yesterday
he installed two solar panels on Shaun's boat.
It took the whole day. Today he
installed a gauge in our water tank so we can know how much water we are
consuming. That was quite a
mission. He had all the floor boards up
so I spent the morning out on deck cleaning old paint off the windows with a
blade. There are also some old
"vignette" stickers (waterways permits) which have been on for 7 or 8
years and have almost become welded to the glass. I got one off this morning and started
another, which Ian finished off. Just
one more to go.
This afternoon we took the
boat to a fuel bunker to fill up with diesel and water, and then came back to
the same spot on the wall.
This evening we all went to a
beer bar. Now I am not a beer drinker
and when I asked the owner if he had cider or wine he was insulted, and asked
me what it was that I didn't like about beer.
Well, I had no idea how to answer that apart from "the
taste"! Anyhow he worked from what
I do like to drink and presented me with a beer that was OK. I can't say I am going to rush out and buy it
but I did manage to drink the whole glass.
Then he asked Ian what he
wanted, there are so many to choose from, hundreds I believe, we had another in
depth inquiry: does he like bitter/sweet/fruity/another 3 or 4 I can't
remember? Bitter. OK, do you like to feel the bitter on your
tongue, or in your throat? Then we had a
biology lesson on how the tongue senses different tastes. I had no idea that drinking beer could be so
complicated! Fortunately Lynn and Shaun
had been there before and know what they wanted.
On the way back to the boat
we passed a church with this instruction: No bicycles here
We will be leaving here
tomorrow, heading into Belgium. We are
not sure how far we will get. There seem
to be quite a few places we can stop so we will just go till we find one that
looks nice. The weather is supposed to be much the same as today - t-shirt and
sandals!
We are having a barbie
tonight, pork shops and sausage, that tastes very similar to boerewors, plus
potatoes and salad. And a glass to two
of wine.
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