Thursday 27th June - Erfelder Altrhein to Schierstein

First of all, apologies for the lack of publishing but we’ve had no internet since Sunday - would never have believed that it would worry me but the last few days have been quite stressful......who would have thought!!  We will have to sort it out when we get home.
Yesterdays’ blog was not quite finished.  When we got back to the boat last night,   Skip went on deck to water the plants and was attacked badly by the pesky mosquitoes and came back inside in a bad state.  They had attacked his face, his eyes were very swollen and his speech was slurred, as if he had just returned from the dentist!  Very worrying.
His face was still somewhat swollen in the morning but he assured Crew and Henk that he was fit to cruise, so we left the mosquito hell hole at 10 a.m.  We had intended to stay for two nights but did not want a repetition of that horror.....they must be very ‘special’ mosquitoes!
There had been hardly a breath of wind in Erfelder - part of the problem we think - so it was lovely to be cruising fast with plenty of air!  There was not too much traffic about so we enjoyed our cruise very much, finally spotting some vineyards on the surrounding hills and the scenery much more pleasing to the eye than the previous industrial areas.
We arrived in Schierstein at 12.45 and found ourselves a couple of berths near the clubhouse of the Wiesbaden Yacht Club.  There are six yacht clubs in this harbour, so plenty of choice.  When we found the harbour master, he informed us that sadly, he could only accomodate us for one night as he had five boats coming in tomorrow for the weekend.  But, still five more yacht clubs to choose from!
So we settled and had lunch as usual.  Schierstein is what you might call a suburb of Wiesbaden, being about 5 km away and is a busy little town with plenty of bierkellers, shops and restaurants.
We went to the clubhouse restaurant for dinner, which seemed to be busy all day.  We all ordered calves’s liver, which we all love but found much too large a portion (seems to be a German thing!).  It appears that we could have asked for a small portion, which will be our modus operandi from now on - hate to waste good food!  We adjourned to the terrace to finish our wine and go talking to an interesting foursome.....three women and one man.  The really chatty woman was from Costa Rica

originally but had lived in the U.S., the U.K. and now in Germany....she had had an interesting life to say the least and had us in stitches for an hour or so.  This is what boating is all about - the peoplewe meet!
Back to Aphrodite, a digestif, a DVD and bed.

38 km 3 hours