Cuvee - Ted’s Atlantic Adventure: Mindelo

11:50 17Nov2019 - Mindelo
Ted’s still in the dumps. He didn’t come on the bus trip around the island - said he’d stay and clean up a bit. I’ve decided not to tell him about the free grog they gave us at the beach. And we drank all the other groups’ grog as well because they didn’t have any Aussies in their groups. It was a bit early for grog - about 09:00 - but as Ted says, “It’s past midday somewhere in the world, and life is for living.”

18:00 17Nov 2019 - Mindelo
Something’s up. Ted got washed and put on his special face and scarf and then left the yacht. Just went. Not a word. Odd...

23:50 17Nov 2019
As I suspected. Ted’s just come back and I said to him “So how’s your girlfriend? When do we get to see her?” And just like that he said “Tomorrow - she’s coming over for brunch.”

11:40 18Nov2019 - Mindelo
So Ted introduced us to Louise this morning and then he cooked us all bacon and eggs on the barbie. I dunno. First impressions and all, I think Aunty Mabel would have described her as a loose woman. Uncle Kev would have said his usual line: she’s not pretty, she’s not ugly - she’s just pretty ugly.
Apparently Ted and Louise met at the Jazzy Bird. She’s a washer-woman and general cleaner. I don’t know what it is about Ted and these cleaning women - probably something in his genes.
Ted showed me some of his holiday snaps with Louise this morning just before they raced off for more fun.