Day 3 - Too windy to sail, but fun was had all the same...
Larvell
Today was a windy day but the sun was still shining, about 10am we went to the beach and had a swim the water was cold but after swimming a lot of lengths we started to warm up, after the swim we went to a little café next to the beach, I had a white hot chocolate which was very different but they were very nice we should have them in England, the weather started to pickup and the wind calmed down a little bit, after that we when back to the boat and we did different jobs I checked that the pipes had plugs next to that in case they break it only took about 20 minutes, after that we went for lunch at a restaurant in the local town, I had a sport pizza which contained tomatoes, gurkings and something else which I cant remember what it was called but any way I didn’t like it so I took them off and pt them to the side. After lunch we when shopping I brought lots of things I got a load of prezzeys for the family it cost a bomb, now I am broke :-(
After shopping me mark, Rachel and Fran when to the beach which was nice and sandy as the beach we went to in the morning had a load of pebbles and hurt my feet. After coming from the beach we went to the shop and got some food and drinks then went back to the boat and put the stuff away than played cards with Fran and Rachel which was fun, after having fun we had more fun by cooking tuna n’ pasta which me and Fran made, it tasted great, their if lots of talent for me and Fran to be professional cooks (chefs).
Frank and mark washed the pots for a change and then we all played cards and I keep winning, after a long day we all when to bed.
The days are flying by it I so fun out here and really hot got to put a load o sun cream on which is a bummer, hopefully the weather should be really hot and we are going to get a football or cricket stuff and I want to go and buy more stuff for me don’t know how I’m going to get it all home, we didn’t go sailing today as it was to windy therefore it would be hard for us and every one was still recovering from a long, hard and fun day yesterday we also had a little slide show of which mark had taken, marks got three massive cameras which cost 3k each and the lenses cost about 1k each and they are 16 mega pixels.
 Photo Credit © Mark Lamble
Rachel
Today has been so full of exciting things it is going to seem hard to fit it on to one page. This morning we got up to the news of a change in plan we weren’t able to go sailing because the wind is so gusty and would have made sailing hard. So we went strait away to go swimming and waisted no time getting in the water it was absolutely freezing cold and hardly warm enough to swim in Frank and I were first in the water and after a while fran came in, the others decided not to come in. we dried off and went to have a drink at a café overlooking the beach, I had a greek coffee and greek yogurt with fruit and honey . We then went up to see yet another celebration of singing and dancing where there was loads of fish . we then went shopping on our way back to the boat but mark took Larvell, fran, and I went back on the beach for a bit. We then went to get a shower and back to the boat in time to play cards and go to bed I am sorry this day in the log was very brief because I only had FIVE MINS to write this!
Frances
Today we got to go SWIMMING!, It was to windy to go sailing but it was really nice day, we went swimming first, me and Rachel were the only ones who really went in properly, the boys were complete wimps, but Frank did go in for a few minutes, then we went for a drink at a café opposite the beach, I had an iced white hot chocolate and some Greek yogurt and some Greek coffee, after that we put are stuff back on the boat and went for lunch , where we discovered a nicer beach as there was actually sand! The sun also shined in that area a lot. For lunch I had an omelette. Then we did some shopping and went to the square and saw Cretan dancers we then went to do some more shopping and had ice cream. We came back to the boat had some pastor that me and Lavell made. And now we are going to play cards. Today was great!!!
Mark
It was disappointing to not go sailing today but it was most definately the right decision! Until today the wind has been light in the mornings, getting gradually stronger as the day unfolds. This morning it was whistling through the rigging at 6:30am.... not a good sign! Instead we spent the day swimming, eating, shopping and working on Gipsy Moth IV. Not really what we had planned, but thoroughly enjoyable all the same. The crew are getting on well despite living in such a confined space - GMIV may be 53ft long but she's narrow and was originally designed for one man to sail around the world - so fitting in 6 people and their bags is a bit of a challenge.
We've been lucky to be in Crete during the Greek Orthodox Easter celebrations and after the excitement of Saturday night's fireworks we were today treated to a demonstration of Cretan dancing. After that it was off for more shopping (!) and then it was time to head back to Gipsy Moth for a tidy-up and a most excellent pasta meal cooked by Fran & Larvell. Hopefully the wind will die down again tomorrow and we can get back to the sailing - if not it'll be Plan B - either way it'll be fun !
Frank
Very Windy today so we had time to swim / eat / shop and maintain Gipsy Moth IV.
We have completed a number of the 100’s of jobs that an old lady who is 20,000 miles into a circumnavigation requires. There is something very satisfying about sitting on deck in the Med whipping the ends of rope / re-securing diesel tanks etc.
John takes the award of the day for managing to squeeze into the space behind the engine. (see photo)
Lets hope the wind drops tomorrow
 Photo Credit © Frank Fletcher
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