A Bit of a catch up..........

The last couple of days have been a bit of a blur (more about this later!) so apologies for not keeping quite up to date with the blog.

Wednesday 18th:

Having recovered from the regular quayside barbeque the night before we all set too again for what turned out to be a pretty logs hard days work. The weather was being very kind to us with bright sunshine and no wind to we managed to epoxy fill all the window surrounds still left and also make a bit more progress on the chocks for the tender. I think we all felt a bit weary after the excesses of the weekend and after a swift walk into town, dinner of mexican wraps and salad and one beer we all headed off for an early night....

Thursday started well.... the weather was still very good and Dario our painter, who is going to spray the areas that i have worked on popped round to invite us up to his house in the early afternoon. He wanted us to see his workshop and facilities, basically he is a great salesman and wants as much work as possible!!.
We spent the morning doing more work on the window surrounds while Roger cleaned out the brass runners that the sliding windows sit in. We had a great lunch and then Dario called to pick us up....
His house is just outside san Remo in one of the valleys, surrounded by greenhouses and farms. He owns quite  a big plot of land and hopes in the future to build houses for his sons....The drive up was a bit hair raising through the winding zig zag roads but we made it and spent an hour or so with him chatting about work etc. When we were about to leave he gave us 4 bottles of his home made wine.... you can see where this is leading .....we made our way back to the boat and continued working for what was left of the day.
We then had to do a quick run to the supermarket to pick up supplies and also visit the diy store next door.
When we arrived back Lisa started dinner (squid and seafood pasta) and we decided to open a bottle of the wine.... The evening went downhill from there, the pasta was superb followed by chocolate cake and another two bottles..........well it was good wine......

Today started well considering the night before.... The wind had got up quite a bit but we still managed good progress, fitting two more window frame back in before coffee and another before lunch. I must say at this point that a have been really spoiled with food. Lisa is an excellent cook and there is always a great lunch of cold meats and salad or fresh quiche or homemade pie. In the evening we usually have a few drinks and sit down for our main meal... tonight is curry and i have been smelling the ingredients all afternoon.

I think overall we are making good progress. The windows have turned into a much larger job than expected as the woodwork around them was in pretty bad condition. Also the respray that happened two years ago was not great and water has been getting in in lots of places. We have had to shelve a few jobs but all in all we are getting there. There is now a very big possibility that i will fly back to the uk for about 5 days and then come back here for another week just to finish things off, as we still have to replace all the mahogany veneer that has been damaged by water ingress....

Anyway will keep you all posted. I am starting to miss Debs and Rocket quite a lot but at least i am still working each day in shorts and a t shirt (no shoes).........and glad to be missing all the lousy weather.....