Wednesday 29th June - Capestang

Neil, from the ports' engineering company arrived with another Brit around 9.30 with our new impeller and got it fitted and checked the heat exchanger and hoses for any debris left by our old impeller, since it was shredded to bits!  The bilge pump was inspected and declared dead so Neil said he would order a new one and fit it tomorrow - the radio (which just stopped working about 5 days ago) needed some sort of gizmo to remove it........he would have a go at that for us too.  Crew is badly missing her CDs!!
A light lunch and a lazy afternoon on board followed and we invited Arthur and Henk over for drinks before 7 p.m. as we were going into town to find a restaurant which Arthur remembered from a previous visit.  Arthur seems to have his own built in radar system as we found the restaurant easily.  As we approached Skip and Crew realised that they had also been there before - it's a Cave where wine can be tasted and purchased and the tables are set out in a very pretty courtyard.  The food was certainly not bad but a bit average - it didn't stop us from having a good time though!!  Henk had been given a bottle of port, so eschewing desserts we repaired to Aphrodite for cheese and port.
As Arthur was nipping down to Antibes for a week (little old jet setter that he is!) we wouldn't be seeing him until our return so it was a very enjoyable evening for us to say 'au revoir'