About Time
07 October 2021 | Mahon, Menorca
Mahon
Thursday 7 October 2021
Mahon is a good place to wait out Mistral that is currently blowing through well protected anchorage at twenty five gusting thirty. We've been informed that this location, about half a mile from dinghy dock, is not authorized, and we should move to a marina or another anchorage a mile further away. When asking late yesterday if we had to leave immediately, notifier refused to say we had to move, only that someone else might come today to inform us that this is not an authorized anchorage. Right. Enthusiasm for relocating through narrow passage to new, congested place in these conditions is minimal. Since plan is to depart early Saturday morning for Sardinia, may attempt to ignore insinuation until then.
Center city, on a plateau above the harbor, is very nice. Unfortunately, due rain and wind, have spent little time ashore and not likely today, but perhaps tomorrow for groceries. Did get to local distillery that makes gin tasty enough that we bought four bottles. Like everywhere else we've been in Portugal and Spain, businesses get busy late morning, go dormant during afternoon, then revive in earnest as the sun descends. Many restaurants don't reopen until eight pm and virtually none serve food between four and seven. Exceptions are ice cream, coffee and adult beverages, available nearly anytime. Hope Didim and Bodrum are a bit more flexible.
Delay in Balearics may require us to clear out of Europe from southern Sardinia, nearly two hundred miles from here (winds prevent going north as originally planned) and almost a thousand miles from Turkey. One advantage of this is having a few days left in ninety limit to clear back in if waylaid when stopping periodically in out of the way spots to rest while pussyfooting through Sicily and Greece. Nonstop passage would take a week.
"Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working." - Anonymous
Jack & Jan