Tim had made the excellent suggestion on Tuesday night of hiring a car to tour the island, so we agreed to meet to go into town to find the hire car company. We also had a bit of a wander round the shops and the market stalls to the east of town. We’d been looking for WD40, an essential part of any tool kit, but our stocks were running low and our mission was not successful. We found a few more minimarkets but there doesn’t seem to be a supermarket in the town at all. We did however manage to buy a world band radio, Tim had also dunked his on route from Angola and as a solo sailor was keen to replace it before the next passage. There were a few market stalls with them available, apparently mostly Chinese and amusingly several with brand names just one letter different in spelling to some famous global brand. We managed to negotiate for 2 for 2000 Escudos (about £7 each), so now we can listen to the BBC World Service on route and hopefully pick up a few local stations in the various places we end up.
Finally, we managed to find a good bakery and the car hire shop, however, later we met Max’s girlfriend Diss who said her brother could provide a chauffeur driven tour for the same price in his new truck, so we arranged to meet him at 9 am the next day.
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