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Datum: 15-06-2016    Sada
 Monday 13-06-2016
It’s really shitty Dutch weather! It rained all night and it looks dark outside. The wind has increased and so the boat is banging up and down. Why did we leave Holland again..? Of course I know that you have no guarantee of nice weather in North-Spain, but that it would be like this…. It stopped raining, but the clouds are still dark, so we decide the leave for Sada, the town on the other side of the river. It is just a few miles, about an hour on the engine. The weather stays dry and even brightens a bit. In Sada we berth the boat at the reporting-pier of Club Nautico de Sada and walk to the wooden harbour office at the end of the jetties. Again we are received very friendly by a harbour master who really tries his best at English. We think about staying here for a few days, amongst other things because of cleaning up our dirty laundry, so we dive right in and ask for a discount. I show him the passport from Galicia, which we got in Ribadeo, to get the reduction.
The harbour master has to consult with his boss, but he will let us know in a short while. He points out the box where we can berth the boat and comes with us to help. As soon as we lie fixed, we gather the first pile of dirty laundry and walk back to the office. We also would very much like a shower, because it has been 14 days since we last where in a harbour. For those of you who think: ”what a bunch of filthy skunks”, of course we wash ourselves regularly with the warm water we get from sailing on the engine and otherwise we put the ol’ kettle on!  But there is nothing like a nice warm shower!
The harbour master comes back with good news and bad news. The good news is we pay what a member of the Club would pay, the bad news is that the dryer doesn’t work! What a bummer, our first washing are the sheets and towels and they aren’t easy to dry in this weather. According to the harbourmaster, there is a laundrette in the town. It is already noon, when we, after our shower, go to look for the laundrette, with a heavy bag full of dirty laundry. After several times asking for it, we arrive at last at the dry cleaner’s/ laundrette. It is in the afternoon and it is closed until 17:00!! We then decide to have lunch somewhere, which we haven’t had yet. Wonderful, this big quantities of food, we are hungry! Anyway, we have to wait another 1,5 hours till the shop opens; we don’t feel like it and walk back to the marina. On the way, we pass a big supermarket, where we buy some fresh bread and a little snack for tonight. We do a laundry cycle anyway with clothing, things that you can’t put in the dryer and hang them inside and outside. The rest of the laundry we’ll wash when we are in La Coruña. Clean up a little, write the blog, Fred at work, reading and more reading, watch some TV and then to bed.
So if you ask yourself what we do on a day…….
 
Tuesday 14-06-2016
It is old-fashioned (as in “Dutch”) lousy weather! Not a day to go out on the town. Fred has a quick walk to the supermarket to get a cart full of water and soda. We will take the cart back, when it has stopped raining and we do the rest of the errands. Full of hope, we wander into the maritime shop to find the cartridge for Fred’s life jacket, but to no avail. In between the showers we go to the clubhouse of the marina, where we have Wi-Fi and check our e-mails. My eldest son, Steven, has sent some photos of my granddaughter through WE-transfer, how quickly time goes by when I look at her. I try to contact both my children through Skype, but get no response unfortunately. I do Skype with my best friend Mila. With some obstacles on my side, because the sound wasn’t working in the beginning. Great to see her again! The rest of the day I clean the boat and we do the usual stuff.
 
Wednesday 15-06-2016
It rained a lot last night. Fred discovers that the power from the shore is out and checks out what can be the problem. For the shore power we needed – we thought – an extra extension, which we had, fortunately. As a result of the heavy rainfall the fuse is blown, but it can be switched back on, on the pier. It turns out there is a ‘normal’ power supply. Fred checks if the plugs are still o.k. and thinks we’d better buy a new one, the old one doesn’t look too good. Also, we go into the supermarket to get something to eat and maintain our stoks.
In between the heavy showers we drink a comforting beer in the local Irish Pub. We let Sada pass, what is the sense in strolling through a cheerlessly town in this weather? Fritz and Gonny are not photographed this time. Tomorrow we sail for La Coruña.
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22-06-2016, reactie van René Schwab
Slecht weer? Dat hebben we hier in Den Haag en elders in Nederland ook gehad. Bij bakken kwam het uit de hemel en ook nu nog loopt menigeen met een winterjas aan. Ik heb ook nog nooit zo lang en zo vaak in de regen gefietst. Maar ja,.... als IK thuiskom staat daar ALTIJD al gauw een warm ligbad klaar, waarin het heel lekker een biertje drinken is. En,..... in Den Haag is er ALTIJD wel ergens een winkel of een restaurant open.
Anita en ik hebben net een week op een héél groot schip op de Adriatische Zee gedobberd. Ook daar altijd een warme douche voor handen en vele bars en restaurants open. Ik wou maar zeggen, op een boot zitten betekent niet automatisch afzien.
Ha,ha, maar als jullie over een dag of wat aan dek in de zon zitten, trek je weer een lange neus naar ons.
Ik krijg mijn portie afzien ook nog wel als ik in het najaar door Thailand en Laos aan het fietsen ben.
Ik blijf jullie volgen. Tot gauw!!
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