Tomorrow Frits is flying home so today
was his day.
We rented a car to explore the Island.
We first stopped over at Mid Atlantic Yacht Service to pick up some
stuff for the boat. It's a small shop but very well equipped and very
knowledgeable staff.
The sailmaker recently had a double
bypass operation and not in the mood to fix my gennaker. Well we'll
see when I come back in July...
We had a very challenging drive all the
way up to the crater of the vulcano. The [dirt]road was steep, with
lots of hairpins ad the higher we came the thicker the clouds, until
we couldn't anything at all.Half way up we had a flat tire, just in a corner of the road... but with 4 guys we had it fixed in no time.. :-)
The crater itself we never got to see ..
but anyway.. we drove on to the West point of the Island where we did
see the lighthouse and the lava stream that ruined the village some
50 years ago.
In all we had a great day anyway, in
spite of the rain that's pouring down for two days now :-o
Later this week the weather is supposed
to clear but the occlusion front seems to be very stable.
Tomorrow will be an exciting night. we're gonna watch the football match Portugal - Holland in a local pub ..
our table is reserved :-) 