Somewhere to stay Ayamonte 11/09/08

We were warmly greeted in Ayamonte by Brian and the two Peter's who were staying over Winter and were quick to suggest we did too as they had got a 30% discount for 6 months. Ayamonte belongs to the Andalusian Marina group (Puertos de Andalusia) which offers very reasonable prices compared to the silly ones., although it has the least array of services compared to the other 11 but it had all you really need. We knew the town was pleasant and had good shopping facilities and flights home from Faro would be easy using either the train from Vila Real or airport transfer to get there so we signed up. .

Crossing the river we had just flipped the fenders aboard as it was only 10 minutes and we would be berthing starboard to again anyway. Tying up Steve noticed straightaway that one was in a pointless position and on moving it he spied a huge scratch underneath on our new paintwork. Things all fell into place as I remembered that when I came to dump the waste in the bin before we left VR the bin appeared to have moved - magic? No we suspect the boat must have pulled along the pontoon to fit another boat in and damaged then with the fender moved to hide it. We had been out the previous afternoon and didn't notice any change on return because we were still behind a big cat, but on reflection remember it was originally 2 big Cats behind us. What rotters, of course nothing we could do but fume.