{"id":417,"date":"2013-05-13T17:53:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T16:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=417"},"modified":"2013-05-13T17:54:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T16:54:32","slug":"giglio-and-the-costa-concordia-to-porto-azzuro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Giglio and the Costa Concordia to Porto Azzuro"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are moving Northwest, making our way to Corsica. \u00a0We arrived at Giglio last night and we had a night that separated the pro from the rookie.<\/p>\n

James made a wonderful dinner of veal parmagiana served with a cheeky pinot gris so we had dinner on Mercier and talked about where today would take us. \u00a0It was quite chilly as the sun went down, but cozy on Mercier. \u00a0Imagine – Swiss Jazz was streaming live over the weefee*, aromas and warmth coming out of the galley. \u00a0We become very relaxed. \u00a0Sailing and being on deck for several hours is quite enervating and off we went to bed.<\/p>\n

By 11:30pm, a south easterly swell came in and every time, I was about to nod off, the bow of the boat would rear up and slide crossways down the wave. \u00a0I look across – James is sound asleep and oblivious to the fact that he is \u00a0sleeping on a Coney Island roller coaster. I am exhausted so finally get up and go to the stern, which is less like a roller coaster, more being on a camel loping through desert dunes, except surely it was too cold. By 5am, I decide it would be better to move than freeze to death in my bunk, (all the blankets and covers are neatly stowed away carefully in vacuum bags). James wakes up and says “What time did you get up? I had a marvelous sleep.” \u00a0Then he reminds me that there is no electricity, therefore no nespresso, aarghh – this travel thing does have drawbacks.<\/p>\n

We get underway after our second cup of tea and sail to Porto Azzuro. \u00a0We sail past the Costa Concordia, which seems to be in salvage mode. \u00a0They have removed panels that were ripped by the rock and we could see several welders putting on new panels so that hopefully they will be able to float her off and take her to a port to be recommissioned. \u00a0We think the several stories of blue containers on the side of the ship are housing for the shifts of workers.<\/p>\n

\"Porto<\/a>
Porto Giglio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"At<\/a>
At work on the Costa Concordia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The day starts blue and sunny and just gets more dazzling as we tight reach towards Porto Azzuro, doing 7.5 – 8 knots, most of the way. \u00a0Port Azzuro is on Elba, a Tuscan island. \u00a0The harbour is a jewel to anchor in and of course, you remember from the last year – the\u00a0artesian gelato makers on the island make the creamiest gelato.<\/p>\n

\"Porto<\/a>
Porto Azzuro Harbour – living up to the name look at the blues<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mercier<\/a>
Mercier at anchor in Cala next door<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"P1060240<\/a><\/p>\n

We are hoping for calm seas tonight, no swell or I might just jump in the zodiac and find a B&B. \u00a0Wish me luck.<\/p>\n

*wifi<\/p>\n

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We are moving Northwest, making our way to Corsica. \u00a0We arrived at Giglio last night and we had a night that separated the pro from the rookie. James made a wonderful dinner of veal parmagiana served with a cheeky pinot gris so we had dinner on Mercier and talked about where today would take us. … Continue reading Giglio and the Costa Concordia to Porto Azzuro<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-6J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}