Arrived a 09:30 this morning. Flight out of Cairo delayed due to Greek industrial action so we had an 8 hour turn in Cairo. Happily I'd paid for business class for the first time in my life; unhappily the Cairo lounge is the only one that I've ever been in that has no wine, no beer (in fact no alcohol) and no wifi! The broker wore our resultant 00:30 meeting with a smile despite the hour. He passed on the key, an address and advice not to set off for a week because of the strong winds that Greece is experiencing. When he worked out that I had no intention of following his advice he fell back on words about min risk routing.Up at 05:15 this morning to catch the flight to Syros.
Sure enough there were plenty of white horses visible from the plane and a pretty bumpy ride in. The boat is in a tiny port with minimal facilities, but very pretty. A search has revealed that the most important things seem to be there but we'll need to find somewhere that sells crockery, cutlery, linen and some tools. That's this afternoons job. The mooring has several lines running into the water and it's a bit boxed in so it's a certainty that I'm going to wrap some of those lines round one of the props when we try to depart!
Looking forward to Gordy's arrival late this evening.
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