Monday morning we had a slow start waiting for the marina guys to remove our battery charger so that Kai could take it to the workshop to have a look. Luckily for us by early afternoon it was returned in full working order, free of charge, which was excellent service. The Wifi was also back up so we were back in touch with the world!
Next job was a bit of provisioning as I was craving some fresh fruit, we decided to try the Mercado Central market hall. We had a great time wondering round the stall of local produce, the ladies on the stalls were very friendly and taught me a bit of Creole as we shopped. We bought local potatoes, eggs, oranges, bananas, apples, papaya and pears for probably tourist rates, but I enjoyed it anyway.
We had dinner at Casa Café on the waterfront which is recently renovated and very nice inside with a chilled out atmosphere, again catering for locals and tourists. We then met Tim for a few beers in Club Nautico followed Deep Water on DVD on the boat as Tim hadn’t seen it. Deep Water is excellent, very well portrayed docufilm by Channel 4 about Donald Crowhurst who went missing during the Golden Globe race for the first solo non-stop round the world yachtsman which was won by Robin Knox-Johnson a British sailor that Tim has worked for in the past. It is a thought provoking which perhaps explains why we were then up until after 2am putting the world to rights over some Portuguese red wine in the cockpit or perhaps it was just the wine!
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