Daily report #43

Hi everybody,

After days of strong wind and high waves, today we have strong wind and high waves. Nothing new under, yes, the sun! It's a bright day and we're swaying in the wind from our left ear to our right. About 75 miles and then the cake is over! Well, the cake had been finished for a while, but the gas is now also gone. This morning while baking breakfast pancakes, the fire went out. So don't bake cookies. No quick cup of tea or coffee and no more hot meals. For a moment I felt unemployed, aimlessly at the mercy of the waves in the stomach of a rocking ship. But, ah we still have a kettle and a generator. You can also do fun things with it. So get started to arrive well filled.
The menu:
Afternoon:
Instant mashed potatoes flavored with Malaysian tofu cubes (ready to heat up in water) Okra and tasty herbs.
Side dish: Dolmas
Evening:
Heated soup (in a cleaned instant coffee pot in the kettle) with noodles and the leftover bread topped with the last piece of Italian cheese.
Tomorrow morning:
Classic ship's dish for when your stove has stopped working. White beans in tomato sauce straight from a can or your choice of brown beans.
If that sounds awful, it's not too bad. We are now infected with the 'canal fever' that sailors get when they approach the Netherlands and come close to home. The land beckons with the smell of grass, trees, flowers and stale beer. We dreamily pick some dried fruit from the cupboard, tick the miles and stare smiling at the blue waves until the moment that sounds "LAND IN SIGHT!"
And when the yellow flag has been lowered as a sign that Customs has searched the ship and emptied the refrigerator and has found that half a liter of washing water a day can still smell quite fresh, then we go ashore.
They will taste delicious :-)

Regards,
Ton and Mark