Thursday 22nd September 2022
A better nights sleep last night which was fantastic. I may have even managed about 6 hours. Yeehah!

After a lovely smorgasbord breakfast of eggs, prosciutto, cheese, yummy grain bread, croissant and fruit for me and same, same but different for David, we walked to the accreditation centre to register for the event. This was a 4km return walk in pleasant walking weather, blue skies and  21°C.  We arrived at the Pool Rescue facility and did our registration. Afterwards we had a chat with some competitors from Cornwall and one of them ended yup being the guy David raced against in the Netherlands. They both remembered that race and were laughing about how shocked Rob was that he was passed by David who was 20 years his senior in the first leg of the board relay inn Noordvjik in 2016. Following our chat David would have loved a swim in the empty pool but they wouldn’t let you pay for individual entry and were charging 30 euro for a lane per hour. As Davis was the only one wanting a short swim, there was no way he was paying that much.

We then headed back to last nights hotel to collect our bags and walk the 2.5km to the “Romagna Camping Village” to check in to our Mobile Homes (cabin) for the next 5 days. In hindsight, we probably should have caught a taxi. we then walked another 3km return to the grocery store for supplies. The rest of the team arrived in stages over the rest of the afternoon. We then walked another 2km return to meet our team for dinner. Another lovely pizza for dinner with an average seafood skewer and salad, finishing off with Creme Brûlée and Lemon Sorbet. We had a lovely night chatting and then walked back home. David and I have a 4 berth cabin to ourselves so we are sleeping separately tonight which means I don’t need to wear a mask sleeping. Yay!

We are so lucky he still hasn’t caught my virus yet. Fingers crossed he can last another 4 days.