After a bumpy night and having been at anchor for a week we decided to treat ourselves to a marina. The marina prices here get stupid as the season progresses so we will have to use the anchor a lot this year. Marina Santa Eulalia is modern and the staff there were friendly. We paid only E75 for two nights but think she accidentally or deliberately charged us as a mono-hull. Unfortunately in mooring stern-to we managed to just touch the starboard stern against the very solid concrete pontoon. A large chip in the gel-coat resulted which Chris has filled and will need to sand down.
We got the bikes out and did a major restock of the food supplies and got a Volvo engineer on board as we have been getting short intermittent battery alarms from the engines when they are in tickover. He wasn’t able to solve the problem but assured us the alternators and other key parts were fine and it was due to a short drop in current. Ibiza Yachting, despite being primarily a motor-yacht business, were very helpful and efficient. We then had a great but quite pricy meal at ‘El Terral ‘ on Friday night. A small French style bistro that is run by a nice young Spanish/French couple. We also managed to sort out quite a few bits of shopping we needed - getting the new cables to support the dinghy made by the chandlers on the quay, topping up the Vodafone SIM, stamps for cards to England and some paint Chris wanted to touch up some bits in the engine-room.
On Saturday we cycled along the promenade and into the low hills around the town, visiting an old mill and the historic centre built on the hill for protection. We then gave Splice a birthday as she hadn’t been washed for more than two weeks and was in a bit of a state. It takes around two hours to properly wash the coach-roof, decks and cockpit. Then you need to wait inside for it to dry as walking on it wet leaves more dirty footprints and the skipper has a paddy! We were tired so a meal at one of the quayside bars finished off the day. We were going to fill up our water tanks as we had paid for it, but having spoken to our neighbour in the marina decided against this as the water on the pontoons is slightly salty, so we used our watermaker instead. The weather in the last few days has been a bit overcast, but today the sun has been out but there is a very cold north wind, too cold to sit out on deck!
We left the marina about 14.00 hrs on Sunday and motored the 2 miles to Cala Llonga. The wind was shrieking down the bay at circa 25 knots when we arrived but we are trusting in the forecast that it will drop overnight (well, Chris is, Carolyn is unimpressed with forecasts that don’t stick to the timetable!).

Photo: The historic hill town of Santa Eulalia