Tortola - West End - Sopers Hole

We have been here in Tortola now for three days. It’s kind of pretty here but not really our cup of tea. You have to tie up to a mooring, as anchoring within the mooring field is not allowed and anyway made nearly impossible. A mooring cost $ 25 per night so it’s adding up when you are staying too long. We also have noticed that people don’t really great each other, unless you have known each other from somewhere else, but in general everyone keeps to themselves. They have got a nice store here, which supplies the harbor with free Wifi, so that is an absolute bonus and the prices in the shop are decent too. Having been so long in the DR with no Ice Cream available in the shops, Pusser’s grocery store is the non plus ultra, they have got yummy ice cream, therefore we have been treating us to one each day. In the morning of our first Wedding anniversary we met Stefan and his wife Beatrice from Germany and celebrated with them here in Tortola our special day. We had a nice evening in the Jolly Rogers restaurants, just on the other side of the harbor. They both work for a German Television Company (ZDF, Auslandsjournal), so they were really interesting to talk to and we enjoyed each other company very much. They left the harbor the next morning, but we stayed for another day. On our last night in West End we watched the sunset with a bottle of wine, read and chatted in the cockpit, until it was time to go to bed.