In this super packed episode of Sailing A B Sea we organise car rental, visit lots of marinas, finally get on board to view some yachts, have a celebratory d...

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That wasn't too difficult, it was very

straightforward. Rented the car for the

week 150 euros and it's full

of petrol bring it back full and that's it.

It's another beautiful day in Javea, the

sun is shining there's not a cloud in

the sky and a apparently is going to get up to around about 18 degrees today

which is fantastic. it's just my kind of

weather. We're taking a bit of a walk

this morning, it's about a 25 minute walk.

We're heading down to a car rental place.

And so by renting the car what that will

allow us to do is, it will allow us to go

out to a lot of different locations and

record a lot more footage in a shorter

time frame, because walking everywhere

takes an awful lot of time. Then we

can then sit down in the apartment for

two or three days and really put our

noses to the grindstone. One of the first

things we did with our rental car was to

take the 30 minute drive inland to

explore the Las Calaveras cave which

has evidence of human use as far back as

50,000 years ago. My origins date

back 135,000 years to the Cretaceous period, when the

planet was inhabited by marine and

winged reptiles,

small mammals and birds with beaks which lived in the dense forests of a

temperate climate. The forests consisted

of tall willows and oaks. Humidity

levels were high, owing to the fact that

global warming was far greater than

today because of the greenhouse effect.

reinforced as well by the high level of

methane which was concentrated in the

atmosphere.

This is as far as you can walk in the

cave, we come up to this metal gate and

it just drops off into quite a deep

chasm and you can hear water that's

running down through the rocks and the

the chasm apparently is flooded and this

is also where the town of bendy leg as I

like to call it gets its water supply

still. So many thousands of years ago

people were using this cave for shelter

and a drinking water source and it's

still being used today as a drinking

water source for a local town of bendy

leg.

So how was that intrepid explorer?

That's pretty fabulous. yeah it's

really interesting, there's more to it than I thought. I thought it was just going to be

a hole in the wall. There was one large area where they drained the pond

and filled it in. It would've been nice to see the pond with a bridge over it.

Stopping to smell the roses is one of

the many reasons why we chose this

radical change in lifestyle, but visiting

all of these exciting new places wasn't

getting us any closer to buying a yacht.

So we got a list of marinas together

and headed north to check them

out. What are you doing Baz?

We're heading north to look at some

marinas and look at yachts, so time to

dig through this box of stuff because in

here are two things. One is the sat nav and

the other thing is a dive torch. What's the torch for? Well when we look at a boat

one of the things we're going to be

doing is poking our heads and hands into

all the nooks and crannies and so you

need one of these things to check that.

Basically we're looking in the dark places

for all the bad stuff. Alright.

One of the reasons we hired the car was

to get the chance to travel to as many

marinas within a days driving distance and talk to as many salespeople as

possible. We've been to a

few places, a lot of them are really

small and don't have any sales offices

and we've just come from the the main

big marina in Valencia, which is huge and

has got lots of boats. We found one sales

office. Yeah nice guy Emilio. Yeah he was

a nice guy, but I was very disappointed

in the fact that he didn't immediately

say oh yes I have three that will suit

you, come and have a look. So it was

disappointing. So we've got, because

we're Bulldogs and we don't let

go, we've got there's a couple more

marinas north of here, but we're just

going to try one more north of here and

if that pans out to be the same as the

ones we've visited so far coming up from

the South, what we're going to do is

we're going to get back to Javea, back

to our apartment, back to our electronic

devices to start shooting out a load of

emails to all of the online agencies,

saying hey these are our requirements

what have you got and make them do the

legwork for us.

Well we meant to go to one restaurant

called Cajita Azul, but he has 80 people

coming in tonight, it was just him in

there in the kitchen,

so we got kicked out of there and we

wandered through a few alleyways and

found this place here called Palau de Javea. So how's the wine? Very

nice, Spanish table wine, you can't go

wrong. Yeah so um we've ordered some

tapas. Yes I'm having cheese with

walnuts and raisins and you're having

patatas bravas, spicy potatoes and then

you're having duck and I'm having the lamb.

We just had the best evening out in Javea.

Baz and I went out for a meal, we

thought we'd just go because we were

celebrating passing our sailing exams

and becoming day skippers and we had a

fantastic meal and then when we were

coming home we met this group of people all dressed in black and white and

a couple of them went high five and they

said how would you like to come to a

party? It's a combined

hen and stag party! We went yeah.

Well that was totally random! We had a

quiet Saturday night in a very nice

restaurant with some really good food

and we bumped into some guys as we

turned a corner. And I gave him a

high-five. And they invited us to a party.

Kind of like a combined stag party and

hen party. And he said come to the party,

so we did. Very nice, wonderful people,

yeah so grateful. So now as old fogies

are gonna go home and leave the young

kids to party. It's all good... Saturday

night in Javea.

It's a boat called Arse! Can you imagine

that on the radio?

You know... Valencia port control. Valencia port control.

This is sailing vessel Arse. Sailing

vessel Arse. Over.


Closed Captions (CC):
That wasn't too difficult, it was very

straightforward. Rented the car for the

week 150 euros and it's full

of petrol bring it back full and that's it.

It's another beautiful day in Javea, the

sun is shining there's not a cloud in

the sky and a apparently is going to get up to around about 18 degrees today

which is fantastic. it's just my kind of

weather. We're taking a bit of a walk

this morning, it's about a 25 minute walk.

We're heading down to a car rental place.

And so by renting the car what that will

allow us to do is, it will allow us to go

out to a lot of different locations and

record a lot more footage in a shorter

time frame, because walking everywhere

takes an awful lot of time. Then we

can then sit down in the apartment for

two or three days and really put our

noses to the grindstone. One of the first

things we did with our rental car was to

take the 30 minute drive inland to

explore the Las Calaveras cave which

has evidence of human use as far back as

50,000 years ago. My origins date

back 135,000 years to the Cretaceous period, when the

planet was inhabited by marine and

winged reptiles,

small mammals and birds with beaks which lived in the dense forests of a

temperate climate. The forests consisted

of tall willows and oaks. Humidity

levels were high, owing to the fact that

global warming was far greater than

today because of the greenhouse effect.

reinforced as well by the high level of

methane which was concentrated in the

atmosphere.

This is as far as you can walk in the

cave, we come up to this metal gate and

it just drops off into quite a deep

chasm and you can hear water that's

running down through the rocks and the

the chasm apparently is flooded and this

is also where the town of bendy leg as I

like to call it gets its water supply

still. So many thousands of years ago

people were using this cave for shelter

and a drinking water source and it's

still being used today as a drinking

water source for a local town of bendy

leg.

So how was that intrepid explorer?

That's pretty fabulous. yeah it's

really interesting, there's more to it than I thought. I thought it was just going to be

a hole in the wall. There was one large area where they drained the pond

and filled it in. It would've been nice to see the pond with a bridge over it.

Stopping to smell the roses is one of

the many reasons why we chose this

radical change in lifestyle, but visiting

all of these exciting new places wasn't

getting us any closer to buying a yacht.

So we got a list of marinas together

and headed north to check them

out. What are you doing Baz?

We're heading north to look at some

marinas and look at yachts, so time to

dig through this box of stuff because in

here are two things. One is the sat nav and

the other thing is a dive torch. What's the torch for? Well when we look at a boat

one of the things we're going to be

doing is poking our heads and hands into

all the nooks and crannies and so you

need one of these things to check that.

Basically we're looking in the dark places

for all the bad stuff. Alright.

One of the reasons we hired the car was

to get the chance to travel to as many

marinas within a days driving distance and talk to as many salespeople as

possible. We've been to a

few places, a lot of them are really

small and don't have any sales offices

and we've just come from the the main

big marina in Valencia, which is huge and

has got lots of boats. We found one sales

office. Yeah nice guy Emilio. Yeah he was

a nice guy, but I was very disappointed

in the fact that he didn't immediately

say oh yes I have three that will suit

you, come and have a look. So it was

disappointing. So we've got, because

we're Bulldogs and we don't let

go, we've got there's a couple more

marinas north of here, but we're just

going to try one more north of here and

if that pans out to be the same as the

ones we've visited so far coming up from

the South, what we're going to do is

we're going to get back to Javea, back

to our apartment, back to our electronic

devices to start shooting out a load of

emails to all of the online agencies,

saying hey these are our requirements

what have you got and make them do the

legwork for us.

Well we meant to go to one restaurant

called Cajita Azul, but he has 80 people

coming in tonight, it was just him in

there in the kitchen,

so we got kicked out of there and we

wandered through a few alleyways and

found this place here called Palau de Javea. So how's the wine? Very

nice, Spanish table wine, you can't go

wrong. Yeah so um we've ordered some

tapas. Yes I'm having cheese with

walnuts and raisins and you're having

patatas bravas, spicy potatoes and then

you're having duck and I'm having the lamb.

We just had the best evening out in Javea.

Baz and I went out for a meal, we

thought we'd just go because we were

celebrating passing our sailing exams

and becoming day skippers and we had a

fantastic meal and then when we were

coming home we met this group of people all dressed in black and white and

a couple of them went high five and they

said how would you like to come to a

party? It's a combined

hen and stag party! We went yeah.

Well that was totally random! We had a

quiet Saturday night in a very nice

restaurant with some really good food

and we bumped into some guys as we

turned a corner. And I gave him a

high-five. And they invited us to a party.

Kind of like a combined stag party and

hen party. And he said come to the party,

so we did. Very nice, wonderful people,

yeah so grateful. So now as old fogies

are gonna go home and leave the young

kids to party. It's all good... Saturday

night in Javea.

It's a boat called Arse! Can you imagine

that on the radio?

You know... Valencia port control. Valencia port control.

This is sailing vessel Arse. Sailing

vessel Arse. Over.