Our next stop is Brightlingsea. Having topped up on fuel (our biggest single expense so far), and no wind forecast for most of the day, the prospect of another day motoring was unappealing (and expensive). So we decided to stay put here in sunny Ramsgate and take advantage of some nice F4 winds forecast for tomorrow.

We have 2 new problems, one that we were kind of expecting, which is the purchase of calor gas, (especially in remote parts of Scotland). The second is new and annoying but not catastrophic. When connected to mains power our duel fuel refrigerator should stop using gas and start using the electric…… It’s stopped doing that, so now we’re using more gas than normal.

Next we learn of a nationwide shortage of small calor gas cylinders, the first place we tried hadn’t had any for over a year. So the search is on…

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