What a start to the day, watching Wales play a fabulous standard of rugby against the world champions South Africa. It was a stunning match but I felt sick when they won by 1 point! I felt so steamed up, that I set about cleaning, giving the oven a really good clean, cleaning the floors, and instantly felt better about it once I had taken it out on the boat!
The boys had missed the match as they had gone into Edinburgh to be tourists for the day, and to attend a church service at St Georges and St Andrews. They also did the open top bus trip around the city and had a lovely time. I have been to Edinburgh many times, for the Fringe and for the Six Nations to watch Wales play Scotland, so I didnt go with them and went on my own tour of ASDA to re-stock the boat, and then searched around looking for replacement gas cylinders – I know how to have a good time! Not so exciting for Mick unfortunately, but I made full use of a visitor with a car!
Our new instructor is due today, he is called Chris Bracewell, he has a hard act to follow replacing Tank it has to be said! As I have mentioned before, its with mixed feelings that we switch instructors, it can make us feel a little unsettled, but we also look forward to it as we have yet another skipper to learn from. As each skipper works with us, they all show us different ways of doing the same thing, so we are collecting ideas from them all – its like having a look at their tools, selecting ones we like and making up our own tool box. So Chris, I am going to take a good look at your tools and make my selection!
As I arrived back to the boat loaded with shopping, Chris had arrived and made himself at home, and it didnt take many minutes to see he will make a great sailing companion for the last 2 weeks of this trip!
Mike cooked a lovely Leithy Edin Con Carne and we all tucked into it at the end of the day.
For the evening, we took a taxi and headed once more into the city. We went to Deacon Brodies and made a rather large contribution to the local economy!
Another short blog today I’m sorry, and not one photo taken – I know you would have liked to have seen what the ASDA looked like, so I apologise for that! Goodnight!
