May 11th 2019
We hadn’t done the laundry since Rhoon, so it was high time to dedicate a day to clean clothes and a clean boat. Whilst walking back and forth with bags of laundry we met Cameron, a Canadian guy who was feeding the geese who came every morning to collect their daily dose of breakfast cereals. Despite being Canadian he had a Swedish flag on his boat. He told us that we weren’t the only ones who found this peculiar. “Immigration also had questions about that. When they asked me why I’m not flying the Canadian flag I said: Oh really, isn’t this the Canadian flag? I didn’t know that.” The officials didn’t have his sense of humor, but apparently didn’t do anything about it as well because he still has the Swedish flag. He is planning to sail south towards Madagascar once he has finished fixing his boat.
We seemed to have ended up at the DIY dock. Next to us are two Ukrainian guys also working on their boat; welding, grinding and hammering all day. And further along there’s a Dutch guy with a motorboat painting his woodwork, so it’s quite an international and hands-on dock we’re moored on.
No boat works for us today, but in between laundry and cleaning we tried to fix the problems we were experiencing with our mail. Somehow people can mail us, but we can’t always mail back which is rather puzzling and very annoying. We spend a frustrating evening going through posts and articles on the internet to figure out the problem, without much luck…