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Tuesday 1 September 2009

Return to the Med

Pippa and I have had a very enjoyable two month holiday in Britain. We have been wined, dined and entertained most splendidly by friends and relations at every stop.

We haven’t done any sailing, but we have climbed one or two modest mountains and enjoyed some very pleasant walks and bike rides. Thank you one and all for making our visit such a success.

It has proved impossible to meet up with everyone we would have liked to have seen, and to those we missed, I offer my apologies. I don’t know when we will have the opportunity to return to the UK again, but when we do I will let you know via the Blog.

A Cornish Chough


Sorry, but I find I have taken very few photos on this trip. (a lack of sunshine perhaps.) We did however spot this bird and a few of his/her mates on a coast path walk in Cornwall.The Chough is Cornwall’s emblem and until recently they were extinct in the county. Happily, since their recent reintroduction, they are now thriving.


I won’t name names, but for the record this has been our route:-
Gatwick - West Sussex - Central London - Bath - Pembrokeshire - Oxford - Basingstoke - Limington, Yelverton - West Penwith - Bristol - Pembrokeshire - N. Wales - Chester - Derbyshire – Sheffield - South London – West Sussex – Gatwick.


It’s now time to return to Turkey and continue our Mediterranean Idyll. We fly from Gatwick on Thursday, 3rd September, to Bodrum and thence by bus on the Friday to Albatross Marina near Marmaris. We will launch Sula on Friday afternoon and find a quiet anchorage in which to acclimatise.


I contacted Albatross marina by Email yesterday and received the following heart warming reply:-




Dear Dee and Pippa,

It is very nice to hear from you. Sula is waiting the date of launching and also waiting for you :). She is very lonely, she told me that she missed you so much:)
Any way, I talked with my area manager and he said it is OK for him to launch Sula on Friday 4th of September. We are waiting for you here in Albatros.

Lots of love from sunny Marmaris.

Melda