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Andromeda of Plymouth - A Picture Paints a Thousand Words......



Still in Horta

We were going to leave today but yesterday we got bogged down in some
housekeeping jobs and then looked at the forecast again and we would be
motoring most of the way to Ponta Delgarda so are going to enjoy this
lovely island of Faial for a few more days. Goody, there are still more
wall paintings to check out to see if we know the artists and the town
to visit again when we are more awake.

We have reverted back to our usual early morning wake ups, the trouble
is that the daylight hours are so long we are ready for bed before the
sun is. Today we had the confusion of waking at one time only to
discover that that particular clock was an hour out and it was an hour
earlier than we thought so in the end I googled ' what time is it in
Faial' for a definitive answer, mainly because we have arranged to meet
up with the folk from Aragon for a drink at Peter's Sport Bar at 5pm and
it would be rude to be late. Now having synchronised our various time
pieces we should be ok for the islands.

So today started with an early rise then developed into a slothful read
in bed for a few hours once we had more days to do things.....cups of
tea.....chocolate digestives...what more could a girl ask for?

A leisurely walk down the marina promenade to get a load of washing
done, great location, sunshine, nice baguettes and fries and all the
while the washing was whirring away in the machine, then into the drier
it went whilst we took advantage of the great shower facilities and
oodles of hot water, soap and fresh white towels that are provided with
the 2 euro cost. By the time I was done so was the drying and I folded
it all up to iron itself on the walk back. Time management or what!

The stunning thing about this particular location is the sheer amount of
art work about. Everyone is encouraged to leave a mark of their passing
through the island and most folk do. This creates an ever changing vista
for visitors and locals to look at. The variety and scope of ideas is
tremendous. Lots of people do indeed paint a picture of their own boat,
others like ourselves have something they identify with and so leave
that behind. It all makes for a fascinating walk around the harbour,
you are always seeing something you didn't notice before as there is so
much to see, and of course it is being added to constantly. We've
spotted a lot of the paintings done by the other ARC Europe people and
nearly everywhere you turn there is someone carefully putting their
ideas down. Some paintings are touched up regularly and have been here
for years others are very ephemeral and in a couple of seasons will have
faded and been painted over, I wonder how long our orange will last ?

Andrew's ribs are still causing him a bit of grief and he finds it
difficult to get comfortable sometimes and especially during the night
so we are hoping that another couple of days will help immensely, the
truth is though that we can't really stop until we are in Lagos so have
a few more trips to do.

In the meantime Andromeda is starting to sparkle again under our
attention and the more jobs we do here the less there will be to do
further on.....well that is the theory anyway.

More in due course,

Susan and Andrew
Andromeda of Plymouth
Horta,
Faial,
Azores,
Portugal


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