Ajaccio - Wednesday 24 May
Matt & Heather arrived safely Sunday afternoon and we set off back to Calvi. The weather looked very promising and the sea was beautifully calm but when we got out of Saint-Florent bay there was an incredible swell although the water was really smooth and unfortunately it finished off Heather who spent most of the four hours to Calvi curled up asleep!
Anyway they loved Calvi as much as we did and we decided to stay until early Wednesday morning with a couple of trips to the beach and a little sightseeing before we left. Set off at 6 a.m. to try to make the most of there being little wind at that time of day and also armed with some Mal de mer tablets - and there was no wind for the whole eight hours and the sea was perfectly calm. We did, however, have a little hiccup - there's always one - about an hour and a half from Ajaccio a sea fog appeared out of nowhere and we could not see anything. To cap it all Bruce had been polishing his horn - I know it makes you go blind - but unfortunately it didnt work! That will teach him to keep cleaning everything. So with Hev and me on the front as look outs we crawled into the Vieux Port at Ajaccio - it was very spooky especially when a sailing boat would appear out of nowhere just by us and then finally the marina wall was there and a massive cruise ship - and then the fog cleared! Anyway it didnt take us long to decide one night was enough in Ajaccio.
Anyway they loved Calvi as much as we did and we decided to stay until early Wednesday morning with a couple of trips to the beach and a little sightseeing before we left. Set off at 6 a.m. to try to make the most of there being little wind at that time of day and also armed with some Mal de mer tablets - and there was no wind for the whole eight hours and the sea was perfectly calm. We did, however, have a little hiccup - there's always one - about an hour and a half from Ajaccio a sea fog appeared out of nowhere and we could not see anything. To cap it all Bruce had been polishing his horn - I know it makes you go blind - but unfortunately it didnt work! That will teach him to keep cleaning everything. So with Hev and me on the front as look outs we crawled into the Vieux Port at Ajaccio - it was very spooky especially when a sailing boat would appear out of nowhere just by us and then finally the marina wall was there and a massive cruise ship - and then the fog cleared! Anyway it didnt take us long to decide one night was enough in Ajaccio.
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