Yesterday, after we had finished dinner, we went for a quick forty minute night paddle. It’s very strange paddling at night; you are a lot more aware of everything around you. There was also almost no light pollution so gazing up at the stars yielded a much better view than almost anything you get back in Britain unless you live on top of a hill in a national park or something like that (or possibly Hull where they do not have electrical power!)
Anyway, today was our last day of proper paddling. We did about six kilometres in the morning and a similar amount in the afternoon. I learnt two things today. The first one is this: A “Salade Caprese” is not a proper salad. A proper salad is a salad which is made up of lots pieces of lettuce with bits of tomato, mozzarella and such like adding flavour to it and has been covered in olive oil or another dressing. It is not supposed to be something that costs ten Kuna more than a twelve inch pizza and yet is made up of ten slithers of mozzarella and ten slithers of tomato and some olive oil to make it “filling”. If I ask for food, I expect it to contain more than one and a quarter calories! Sorry if that is too much to ask for.
Anyway, that was what happened at lunch today on one side of Sipan Island. In the afternoon, we paddled around to the other side of the island where our accommodation was. We, the silver group, are staying in a bed and breakfast about ten minutes inland by foot. Personally, I really like it. Unfortunately, I do not think that feeling is shared by our landlady. One hour was all it took for a complaint to be lodged against us following water being dripped on the floor and in a sofa bed, a person sitting on a table and a small(ish) incident involving myself, a loo and a lock on a door which no one could open except our now very annoyed land lady. That was the second thing I learned today: Do not trust loo doors which use key to lock their doors unless you want to end up like Norris in Coronation Street!
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