Updates from Pete and Cliffy
23/Nov/09 22:41 Filed in: Nyamezela
News from Cliff, Sunday 22 November:
We have been travelling flat out and for the first time now have good internet connection at the Blue Marlin, a pub down from our apartment. We are having a problem with sms and cell reception and will try sort that out tomorrow.
The trip up was ok. Flights were good, Virgin Atlantic was great. The floods and bad weather meant that our flight from Gatwick was delayed by an hour which meant that we missed our ferry. However, we sat next to a lovely English couple, Sue and Nigel, who put us up in their holiday house (on the first night of their holiday!) and took us out for a beautiful meal and paid our taxi fare from the airport ... amazing people - so hospitable and warm. Nigel is a retired fireman from the UK. He will be coming over from Tenerife to see us in the next few days.
Today we had a great day. Started out just catching the ferry to the island and then checking the boat out and all the other boats. There's great energy here. Very British. Pete has interesting competitors.
We unpacked the boat in 30 deg heat. Everything survived the journey - the chocolates arrived unscathed! Pete has registered and we have booked our slot for the medical kit check and the scrutiny has been booked for next Monday. Lots to be done till then! We spent the rest of the day packing the treat bags: Pete's jungle juice, his chocolates, etc. 90 bags, one for each [potential] day.
Tomorrow we will get on to setting the dagger board and a few other pieces of kit
It is really amazing to see how well Pete has been received. He is really liked by the rowers and it's clear that they really respect him. There were lots of oooohs and aaahs at Nyamezela - she is beautifully built and people are raving about her. I feel so proud to be with Pete and connected to his campaign. Photos to follow soon!
News from Pete, Monday 23 November: Cliffy and I have spent the last two days getting the boat ready for the epic journey. My dankie tannie packies have been packed, we have interior decorated the cabin with some nice white foam (which will keep me cool and the sound out) and organised my medical kit which was supplied by Life Health Care Group. Tomorrow at 11h00 I have my medical scrutineering. We discovered a few missing items and had an interesting shopping spree in the local pharmacy. Cliffy and I were trying to explain in our best Spanish (our vocab so far is "dos cerveza por favor" - two beers please) that we need Vaseline, an eye bath and tough cut scissors. Not easy and we are still not sure if we have the right thing. Oh well at least our Spanish has improved. Butterflies are still huge but I am looking forward to the start.
Today we had a great day. Started out just catching the ferry to the island and then checking the boat out and all the other boats. There's great energy here. Very British. Pete has interesting competitors.
We unpacked the boat in 30 deg heat. Everything survived the journey - the chocolates arrived unscathed! Pete has registered and we have booked our slot for the medical kit check and the scrutiny has been booked for next Monday. Lots to be done till then! We spent the rest of the day packing the treat bags: Pete's jungle juice, his chocolates, etc. 90 bags, one for each [potential] day.
Tomorrow we will get on to setting the dagger board and a few other pieces of kit
It is really amazing to see how well Pete has been received. He is really liked by the rowers and it's clear that they really respect him. There were lots of oooohs and aaahs at Nyamezela - she is beautifully built and people are raving about her. I feel so proud to be with Pete and connected to his campaign. Photos to follow soon!
News from Pete, Monday 23 November: Cliffy and I have spent the last two days getting the boat ready for the epic journey. My dankie tannie packies have been packed, we have interior decorated the cabin with some nice white foam (which will keep me cool and the sound out) and organised my medical kit which was supplied by Life Health Care Group. Tomorrow at 11h00 I have my medical scrutineering. We discovered a few missing items and had an interesting shopping spree in the local pharmacy. Cliffy and I were trying to explain in our best Spanish (our vocab so far is "dos cerveza por favor" - two beers please) that we need Vaseline, an eye bath and tough cut scissors. Not easy and we are still not sure if we have the right thing. Oh well at least our Spanish has improved. Butterflies are still huge but I am looking forward to the start.
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