Hung-Out To Dry

23 October ’04, Saturday. Sun is out bright, it is warm (70º), slight wind off the Black Sea, and it makes a perfect day to get some washing done and hung out to dry. So, that is exactly what we did. After getting it all hung up, we went looking for lunch and tonight’s dinner. Yesterday we looked down onto the harbor, so today we went down there to see what was happening. We have watched about 4 or 5 boats running back-n-forth across the beach area in front of our campground and wondering just what they were catching. Well, this afternoon, we found out. They are picking the tiniest little clams you could imagine. Bushel Bags full, all going to Japan and France, for the “Big Bucks”. These clams were smaller than the fingernail on my thumb. As we walked the marina, we had noticed from afar, a huge old tanker tied to the dock. Well, what it turned out to be, was a tanker that had sunk quite a long time ago. There were barnacles all over it, from bow to stern, from bottom to top of the bent masts. I would have guesses it was under for at least 25 years and probably much more. Now, I would guess it was about ready to go to the scrap metal shoppes. Leaving our tanker behind, we went looking for lunch. Just down the wharf, we found a little restaurant…gravel/dirt flooring, thatched roof, log railing surrounding the 8 tables inside. Sitting inside already, were people eating at 2 tables. Looking over what they were eating, we made our choice…”Just What They Are Having, But Only One Order Please”….Uh ha, Yep, You know it… I don’t know what it is about ordering our food in a restaurant, but if you only want one thing, everything goes..BAAMMM…NO COMPUTE !!! Well, it was good, but how the bill got that high, I’ll never understand. I think they definitely have 2 price sheets, one for the locals, and one for us. Oh well, we’ve got to support the economy one way or the other.
Tomorrow…Our last day and night in Þile

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