Journal of the thirtysecond day on board

3rd June, 1999

Time: 13,20 Osvaldo drains the pasta and stirs in the aubergine sauce after having decorated a delicious rice salad.
We are in port at Catania. Yesterday a 2-way radio became flooded, then, travelling at night we lost the rubber dinghy and shortly after the generator also packed up.
Just like eating cherries, it seems one follows the other!
Today maintenance and .… delicious food.

For a day Adriana has passed on her duties and the keys of the kitchen to Osvaldo who keeps revealing unexpected talents.

Osvaldo is a great scuba diver, a marvellous cameraman, a most likeable travelling companion, a chef from the 'healthy and good for you' school of cooking and ….. I was forgetting, when he was in Milan, was also a useful dentist, single to boot!

Time: 15,26 We leave Catania, bow towards Siracusa. We are going to pick up our friend Archimedes Pitagorico, an eclectic inventor with a strange prototype.

To what end ?