In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we discover the ups and downs of how to find Internet overseas. The Mediterranean is a popular place but with each country...

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It's been a fairly sleepless night. At

one point the wind completely changed

direction and the anchor pulled out and

had to reset itself, that was quite scary.

So I've got to go into town to pick up a

data sim and then once that's done we'll

be upping anchor and heading to the

southern part of the island.

Where are you going aqua woman?

I'm going to dive the anchor and check it's in.

Good girl!

Well that was good, it's dug in like a tick!

Dug in like a tick? It's not going anywhere

Good stuff. Yeah.

We just want to say we

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Yeah making our journey

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Thanks very much Trevor.

Yeah thanks Trevor and also welcome to Michael Mayo

Yep, thanks to both of you and of course

all of our other patrons for making this journey possible.

We bought a four fish from a fisherman

that came by this morning and it was my

job to descale and gut them. So here's

the fish that we've cooked, well I've

cooked, with some salad and we did get

four this morning

and while I was descaling and gutting

them over the... at the back of the boat

because it was so slippy, I

lost one, it just shot overboard

and by the time I'd taken my glasses off and

dived in it had just disappeared! It had

swam away, swum away... so we've got three but we

actually only wanted three to start with

didn't we? I think it's enough. Yeah. Yeah

The next thing on the agenda to buy is also

a nonstick pan and a fish descaler

Yes that would be really helpful because it

took a long time and I probably bruised

the fish while I was doing it with a

knife but you know it's all a learning

curve and I'm sure it's gonna taste

great. I'm sure it will.

I think it's gonna be very bony, I can see lots of little bones. Mmm well I brought this up for bones

Ah fabulous

Mmm it's very good.

We're in a much more

sheltered anchorage here than we were

when we woke up this morning, aren't we Baz?

Yes the other place was really

untenable for another night, there

certainly wouldn't be any sleep

literally we came one and a half

nautical miles around the corner so we

didn't even bother putting the sails out

we just motored around. There was 30

knots of wind out there at one point

when we come through and in here

although we're still getting gusts

there's no random direction of the gusts, they're

are all coming from from one general

location yeah and they're not

they're not as strong either no it's

much much more pleasant.

And it's a pretty little bay too actually

Well we're actually trying to get

internet connection at the moment which

is obviously a big thing for us

particularly Saturday and Sunday after

our video goes out on YouTube because we

like to talk to people and reply to your

comments. Yep indeed so leave comments

on the videos we always get back to you.

Yeah, so that's the next challenge trying

to get connected to some sort of

internet so that we can do some work but

by the time you see this we will have

solved that problem so that's pretty

cool hey? All right okay well I'm gonna

troubleshoot internet and stuff like that

We are in Delaila's bar on the

beach where we are anchored in front of

and the mission today is to find a phone

signal so that we can actually activate

the 30 euros of credit that we've got.

The SIM card is activated but there's no

phone signal here so we can't install

the credit that we've bought onto it.

Plus the fact although we have looked ahead for

the weather by about five days and it

seems to be pretty much like this it

does feel weird being totally blind to

any weather that may or may not be happening

especially if we want to in a day or two

move to the next island, we don't really

want to do it without knowing you know

what to expect

yeah so that's why this mission is

vitally important today so we stopped

the Delaila's to fortify ourselves with

a beer because we've got to climb up a

hill and see if we can get any signal at

the top of the hill and if we can't get

a signal atop the hill we're gonna have

to walk into town which is a 40 minute

walk. Yeah. And it's quite warm. It is warm. Yeah.

We did also, we did actually also bring water - a whole litre and a half

So this is the view that we've got at the moment

Listen to those chimes

I reckon nothing says summertime like

wind chimes and cicadas on a warm day

Well that wasn't quite as successful as

we hoped - we didn't have to walk to town

because the guy in the bar was really

helpful wasn't he? Very helpful, he used to

work for a telecom company and what he's

figured out is that the lady in the shop

has sold me a telephone sim and sold

me credit for a data sim so ne'er the

twain shall meet.

So we're gonna have to go back to the

boat and come up with a plan C because

it'd be too late to walk into town now

because the shops are closed till 5:00 yeah.

So back to the boat, see what we can come up with

Well I'm thinking lunch, snorkelling. Okay

There's A B Sea over there, she's a fringe dweller

Ooh, look what I've found!

Hello

That was quite sedate for them wasn't it?

They kind of slowed down

Our mission

today has taken us from that bay down

there where A B Ses is anchored all the way

up this very steep hill and we've got to

cross over the top of the highest point

here and then take a left down into the

town over there. It's about a 30 minute walk

We are going back into town for a

second time to try and get a data only

sim and then we can apply our thirty

euros worth of credit to it and see how

many gigabytes that gives us, so we're

going in reasonably early. Yep. It's about

nine o'clock I think - that's where we're

going. The place we're first gonna try is

the post office in the old part of town

at the Town Square

It's a fiesta day today so everywhere is

closed. Yeah even though it's Monday the

shops are shut, and in particular the post

office

And we were planning on leaving here tomorrow

to head south? Yep.

But it looks like we've got another hour's walk

tomorrow morning to come

and get the card and the quest continues!

See if we had internet we could have googled and found out there was a fiesta - and found out there was a fiesta

but we haven't so

we couldn't so we didn't. No. Coz that 9

gigabytes turned out to be nine hundred

megabytes. Yeah. And we've got how many? 538 left. There you go! Yes.

Okay back to the boat Batman

Well that anchorage on the southern side of

Lipsi got very busy overnight and this

morning everybody has upped anchor and left, us included.

We are heading to Liros

we've got three plans here for anchoring

the first one hopefully will give us

access to town where we can probably buy a data sim

Fingers crossed. Yep

There's really not enough wind for

sailing but we have got the head sail

out acting more like a kite than a wing

in the hopes that it might give us an

extra half knot and if the wind does pick up then

we're already prepared and then we can

switch the engine off. It's not too far

together I think it's about nine miles that we've gotta go anyway. Oh that's not far at all

not alot.

Oh it doesn't like that at all

We might bring it in!

Now here's a question for all you sailor

guys and girls, our anchor chain is

slightly twisted and it sometimes likes

to jump off the gypsy when we're

bringing it back up, now this could cause

problems as you all know, my question

here is if we've got a dead calm flat

day and we're out in let's say 80

hundred metres of water, would it be

possible for us to just stand still in

the water, drop the chain over the side

with the anchor of course and let it

come back up and untwist itself as it

comes back up from that depth? Let us

know in the comments down below your

help would be appreciated thank you.

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