Sailing with Eye Candy: Monastir to Malta

10:22 PM Sat 23 Apr 2011 GMT

'Castle at Monastir' Clare and Andrew Payne

Andrew and Clare Payne, after a break for the winter, are back on their sailing yacht Eye Candy in the Mediterranean, which has been berthed in Tunisia over the cold months. What will they find after the instability of the past months in this normally peaceful country? We arrive at Monastir in Tunisia on 23rd March and depart twelve days later. Labour is cheap in Tunisia and so for the lowly price of $400 the boat is slipped, power washed, sanded and painted. All other cleaning, polishing, maintenance and provisioning jobs are completed in little ...

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by Andrew and Clare Payne