Odd jobs in Schoten.

Thursday 23 April 2015 (piccie poor post)

Schoten is a pleasant enough town – not very inspiring but functional, clean and with sufficient amenities to keep its citizens and visitors happy.

 

Schoten town hall.

A bull made from recycled tyres.

(Unfortunately the camera battery ran out after this was taken)

Being a lovely day, Lynn knuckled down to washing the saloon carpet while I started the job of renovating the two storage/seating boxes which are on the aft deck.

Cropped from another pic - the deck box before.

Soon after my Ryobi sander packed up so off to Hubo it was to find another. Although they do stock some Bosch products, almost their entire stock of power tools are a housebrand called ‘Power Plus’ which are well priced and the orbital sander I bought comes with a 3 year warranty so it should be okay.

Ran the port engine for an hour while the sander ran off the big (1,200W pure sine wave) inverter.

Much later we all packed up and went for a shower and a beer at the convivial Jachtclub Schoten

after which, on the way back to Elle, I had the urge to try one of the burgers from the ‘Burger Voor Burger’ (‘Burgers for Citizens’ for the English speaking readers – a play on the word ‘burger’ which means ‘citizen’ in Dutch) restaurant which we had passed on our way back from Brasschaat yesterday. Delicious, and the calories were dusted off on the (non electric) ride back to Elle into a stiff breeze.

(PS: Really trying to get this blog up to date...)