16 June 2023 - Bari

Yesterday we had rain, today we had gale force winds. We had started to get bounced around from the early hours of the morning. This wasn’t ideal, as I was sick all morning. I’ll never know if this was from some dried figs we had or from the dinner. The wind was such that we had to bring the passerelle on board so it didn’t get damaged, so again we were confined indoors and therefore there’s not much of interest to say about today. We kept ourselves amply entertained, though, by listening to the cricket commentary.

Miles today             0

Miles in 2023      747

Tricia (& Steve)

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