Menus and Medicines

The market is bustling this morning. Booths for Aloe Vera and leather-thong jewelry, Indian cotton blouses are set up around the fruit stands. I buy some good homemade German rye bread and nut-cake. The German population in La Gomera is considerable.

At a café table outside the cyber-café Idun from "Blue Marlin" and I get a chance to compare ship-medicine lists. What do you have for sun blisters? For keeping stomach problems at bay? We compare menus and food-lists for the Atlantic crossing: How much water? Eggs? Will you turn them over each week? What vegetables last longest? How much time will you save boiling rice in the pressure cooker? There are recipes to be copied. Marie from "Lille Blå" is busy on their portable computer, logging on their home-page. She has a whole book of good "family recipes" to share.

Back at the boat Ørnulf has a bad day. Changing the oil filter, a part, a glass cup, has fallen and broken. Where to get a new one? And when will a part ordered from..wherever.. arrive? Later, I break my good expensive "progressive" glasses while, admirably, polishing them. Oops. Remember, I´ve already had the perscription sunglasses stolen. Ørnulf is still thinking: motor. So to the broken glasses he says, "oh." And then, "Too bad".

A late evening coffee-chat on "Blue Marlin" helps. Ørnulf talks motor with Rune. Idun and I are on different wavelength.