9.5° C sunny but breezy. Woken at
8.15 a.m. by the sound of strimmers. The WSA men were back to continue the
clean up along the bank by the boat mooring! Mike got up and went out
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| Footbridge to Reichstag - Wikimedia photo by Joseph Renalias |
to make sure they didn’t break the windows -
we’ve had trouble before with waterways men with strimmers, ie stones and broken
car windscreens. The hotel boat had gone and the men were doing the other bay
first. Thankfully, they cleared alongside our boat with shovels and didn’t use
the strimmer. Bill was getting ready for his cycle tour of the city. He ran Rosy’s
engine for an hour before he went out at ten. The trip boats started moving
again shortly after that. Mike went out on foot to buy some bread. I tried
‘phoning the F1 hotel in Calais again and
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| The Bode museum - Wikimedia photo by Calflier001 |
got a message to say it was an
invalid number. I took Fanny out for a wander around the greenery along the
path above the quay. A young woman was sitting on the quay by the steps. She
said something in French as the dog went past so we had a short chat in French,
which made a pleasant change! I’d just returned Fanny to Rosy’s back cabin when
Bill returned. He came back with some interesting postcards of the war damage
to the city centre and the “Wende”, the night when the wall came down. No sign
of
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| Trip boats by the Bode - Wikimedia photo by De-okin |
Nefertiti - he said she must be at Charlottenburg. Mike ‘phoned the F1 hotel
in Birmingham - their number worked and the girl who answered gave him the
number for Calais. He went off to post a film to be developed and I ‘phoned
Calais. The new number was an automatic booking service, so I followed the prompts
(in French) and booked us a room for the 1st November. The wash from the fast
passing traffic ripped one of our tyre fenders off and, of course, it sank!
Mike tried
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| More trip boat by the Dom - Wikimedia photo by Telecasterman |
searching for it with our boat pole attached to one of Bill’s long
shafts (the water was over 3m deep) but there was no sign of it. Not surprising
really considering the amount of sploshing about that the water does. Peter
sent a text to ask us to see if we could make contact on HF radio and to try
40m. We put the pole and wire up. It was very noisy, couldn’t hear much. Came
to the conclusion that we were getting lots of local electrical interference.
Peter gave up and went to play at finding portals on 2m repeaters. A hireboat
managed to squeeze into the gap in front of our bows, it was attached to the
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| TV tower (fehrnseturm) from Dom - Wikimedia photo by Andreas Praefcke |
dolphin in front of us about halfway along its hull. The boat moored behind us
had been playing very loud bumpty-bump pop music all evening. Mike went out to
start up our genie (which is very quiet, suspended inside the engine room with
an exhaust through the pigeon box on the roof) and had a staring match with the
bloke off the boat behind us (a middle aged man not a twenty-something pop
addict!) who was sitting on the top deck. The volume went down after that.
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