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Up fairly early in the morning for a prowl around Preveza and find some essentials for breakfast.

Once the skipper emerges its back to the supermarket to store the boat for our voyage south. 

Passing a chandlery I pop in looking for whipping twine, as I have seen the “fluffy” state of our mooring lines. Its an English owned chandlers but my request falls on deaf ears as regards the staff (dont you just melt the ends..) Luckily a fellow customer says “I have some you can have, were are only a couple of berths along from you , I’ll drop it along when I get back to the boat.”

Back to the boat with the supplies and the skipper reminds me that the torch batteries are flat. Out with the multimeter and I quickly trace the problem to blown bulbs not flat batteries and its off on a bulb hunt.

How many electrical stores in the UK do you know who will happily sell you a torch or replacement batteries but don’t stock bulbs? Well I rapidly find that the situation in Preveza is much the same, but venturing away from the main drag eventually manage to track some down in a little hardware store.

Back to the Fox and we are ready to set off, and yes I am now the proud owner of half a spool of whipping twine…