The return – part 2 – The Adventures of Gemini J

We enjoyed a fabulous rest day in Moraira, starting off with a bike ride out into town to find an English breakfast which we tucked into very enthusiastically, you can´t beat a full plate of bacon, sausage, eggs, beans, mushrooms and toast !! We enjoyed our time as neighbours to the Russians aboard Gin Tonic, which started very early in the morning with one of the men inviting me to do “gymnasium” with him as he ran up and down the pontoon and then proceeded to show me how to do squats, right next to our boat (quite the wake up call!!), needless to say, I politely declined. We then watched another one of the party take his easel up onto the breakwater to start painting and he spent all day backwards and forwards working on his art, it was lovely to watch – unfortunately we didn´t get to see the finished work.

Once again after a great rest day it was time to move on. We needed to fuel up so we went straight over to the fuelling dock before we left the marina, classic error, we arrived at “almuerzo” which is the morning snack time so we ended up waiting for 15 minutes til the shop re-opened and we could re-fuel our cannisters before departure!!

Happy days, we were sailing ! Great wind and for once in the right direction.

Seemingly very quickly we arrived at Calpe and had to round the beautiful Peñan de Ifach – it was stunning.

All too soon the conditions picked up a little too much and we decided to make our way in to Marina Greenwich, a new marina for us which we entered in 20 knot winds – almost fun but really a lot of concentration was needed. As usual skipper Nigel got us nicely onto berth (in spite of a less than helpful marinero) and we took in our surroundings. Marina Greenwich is so called because it lies on the meridian line and it is a relatively modern purpose built complex surrounded by apartments, many of which appear to be for sale, it struck us as perhaps a little soul-less. We decided to skip the expensive restaurant near the boat and headed to a pizzeria a little walk away along the dock side. Nigel ordered tropical and basically got a chicken and fruit salad pizza!! It was odd but he enjoyed it. The dessert was amazing, tiramisu, a very good choice made on my behalf by the skipper 😉

The next morning was bright and sunny again and we had a slightly awkward departure because we were actually in quite a tight space, a bit of pushing and pulling and we got ourselves out of the marina and headed towards the headland off Benidorm.

Once again we had good wind and we managed to get ourselves sailing once more 🙂 although quite slowly once again. Eventually we put the motor on to give us a little push round the headland before we sailed again past Benidorm and Villajoyosa and on to El Campello.

The visitor berths in this marina are almost in a corner and can be tricky but Skipper Nigel got us alongside with no issues and we had a relaxing evening aboard watching the sunset and smaller boats coming back into the marina.