Day No. 93 - Santa Claus on the beach

December 6, Santa Claus. - Did you all find something in your boots? Then be happy! - I don't know what the reason was, whether it was that our flip-flops weren't clean enough, or there just wasn't room, either way we didn't get anything from Santa. But what is it about St. Nicholas, and is the rumor true that he was a Turk? - Maybe even a Muslim?

No, I can reassure all who need to be reassured. - Nicholas was indeed born around 280 AD in Myra, today's Turkey, but at that time this area still belonged to Greece. - Now one or the other will certainly say that the chocolate is then certainly Schuldzins. But I was always an advocate of it that the Greeks cannot have debts with us. Or did anyone really believe that the ouzo "for good friends" were really free? - But he was certainly not a Muslim, since he was ordained a bishop. But Nicholas seems to have been quite modern for his time, he supposedly took part in the first ecumenical council in church history in 325. - Nicholas was probably already during his lifetime a kind of Robin Hood, i.e. "lawyer of the poor and lawless". - Therefore, I can understand even less that today nothing was in my flip flops.

But as compensation, so to speak, the sun wakes us up once again. After the gray days, we enjoy it immensely that a little bit of the sun shines. Although it is not warm and the wind quickly spreads cold, you still feel the sun as soon as you have found a wind-protected place.

As Torgit always says, "when I see the sea, I don't need the sea anymore". Therefore, we decide to stay two more days on site. Our solar panel helps us considerably here. Yesterday we gained 470Wh of solar energy. Today we want to top that. That's why I'm already shooed out early in the morning to get the solar panel started.

Torgit has a new hobby: "Better than Netflix," she comments, regularly checking the solar app. Either way, the solar bag seems like an ideal complement to roof panels. After all, especially with the sun flat in winter, we can angle them better.

But there are not only positive things to report. Unfortunately, we pay on this tour far too often Lehrgeld. After we, sorry I have a drone, a MacBook, an iPad and my glasses scraped, was due today not only my carbon paddle, but also our back seat. - How does something like this happen? Recklessness, stupidity, malpractice. But often you do not know where and how to stow things protected or act correctly.

For example, the drone has obstacle detection at the front and back. Unfortunately, not on the sides. When the sun shines on the display, however, you often do not see directly that it is in a light lateral flight. This is a classic application error.

The display of the MacBook had a loose contact. The constant shaking on cobblestones or off public roads is certainly not gentle on the material and not only takes its toll on tires.

Moving around in a small space as a tall person, and maneuvering lots of things from here to there is often more of a challenge than you might think. But I am working on it. So I accidentally sat down on the iPad once.

But what has it today with the paddle, respectively our back seat on. Since we have our SUP of the night sometimes stand outside, I have the associated bag, replaced by a waterproof duffel bag from Ortlieb. But now the paddle did not fit. On the back of the backrest of our back seat I found apparently the ideal place. But unfortunately, the whole thing has mislaid when folding.

Not only did I damage the paddle, but our rear seat can no longer be folded back from the reclining position. Since there is also a California a few meters away, the first exchange of information takes place among fellow sufferers. This has not yet brought me any further. In the meantime, I have read in appropriate forums that there could be different causes. To find the cause, however, we have to remove the rear seat panelling. This is badly possible here on the beach. We postpone the whole thing to our next visit to a camping site. By then, my chest should also be healed again, because the climbing underneath the bench has left blisters.

In the meantime, Torgit has set out for a combination of beach walk and shopping. Carrying the shopping over the beach for about 2 km also seems to have been harder than previously thought. (Note from Torgit: Shopping itself is also sometimes a challenge here. I only say "Nestle." More about that in the next days).

Therefore, we now hang out the hammock and our further activities consist only of rehanging the solar panel and the usual domestic activities.

As the sun sets, we are delighted to see that we have topped yesterday's value, i.e. our solar yield, once again. Today it is 530Wh. The additional yield would have been enough to let a 60 W light bulb burn for one hour. That is the right direction.