11th June

Eva slept late the next morning so everyone else did too. It had rained in the night and the morning was grey and cloudy. It didn't matter too much; it wouldn't last, the sun would soon be shining again.

Around lunchtime the weather started to look brighter and we headed into town. Gill was wearing her tourist gear... shorts and a strappy teeshirt. This is Ibiza after all, and it is summer, even if the weather is not so certain and there are still clouds hovering in the sky.

Our marina berth was as far from the town as it is possible to be so we had a long walk to get anywhere. But it was pleasant and Eva enjoyed the puddles. We walked past the marina shops and restaurants and then along the sea front. Clouds were beginning to gather again and by the time we had stopped for a drink and some playtime for Eva, it was starting to rain again and looked like settling in. Gill was getting seriously wet. There were a lot of people wearing flimsy plastic coats and eventually Gill also bought one... it cost all of 95 euro cents!

We arrived back on Ganymede just in time. The heavens opened and the rain poured down. Soon the pitter patter on the roof was sounding more like a rapid thud, thud, thud. Huge hailstones, about the size of Maltesers, were falling. Amazing. I'm sure I've said it before but I think in these last weeks we have had more rain and stormy weather than we did all winter. But that is no consolation for Alistair and Gill.

But the rain stopped and the sun came out again. Alistair and Gill took Eva to the beach, where they enjoyed their first swim and Eva enjoyed playing in the sand and in the little play park. There was no way she was going near the water!

At various intervals throughout the day we had shown Eva 'her' bed. She was having none of it. We told her it was Uncle Charlie's bed. We told her she could have his special quilt... look, it has boats on... we suggested that dolly would like to try it out and so dolly spent most of the day in bed. Slowly, Eva came round to the idea that she, too, would sleep in Uncle Charlie's special bed and when bedtime came she climbed in, snuggled up and fell asleep.

After dinner Alistair and Gill went out to try the nightlife.

We caught up on some much needed sleep.