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| Hotel Sabotin and the kayak trailer |
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CSNZ Junior & U23 Teams
Monday, June 24, 2013
Sunny Solkan sunday 24th June
Kids all up and at the fantastic buffet breakfast by 7am!! Out of sync timezones and the anticipation of unpacking new boats were too much to keep them in bed. Beautiful warm weather, boats and padding and glue all over the hotel front lawn and a picture postcard building on every corner made for a great start to the day.
Dale and Wendy headed off in the van to track down the supermarket and get in supplies for lunch and cooking implements to use in the tiny kitchen attached to Parvel and Martins room - called an apartment but really just two electric rings, one sink (no plug) and no plates or cutlery - and a fridge the size of a portable TV. Bit different to the orchard garden kitchen ...... Kids who had a boat padded out and ready to go, took the 5 minute cobbled street commute on foot to the course on the Soca River. It would be fair to say that they are all totally impressed by the surroundings down at the course,- tiered stone walls, a cafe, lots of locals sunbathing, swimming and watching our guys training, - from the vantage points along the course and from the totally cool cafe at the top of the course. New boats received their first scratches and new paddles put through their paces in the 30degree plus heat. Martin and Pavel organised for the boats to be stored down at the course in the boathouse so its almost luxury here for everyone - only having to carry your paddle and gear down. Just heading out for tea down at the pizza place on the corner - this treat due to a miscalculation by Wendy of the opening hours of the supermarket - its Sunday and all the shops close at 3pm and we hadn't brought in all the tea supplies during the hurried trip this morning -
Pizza for dinner
the little road down to the kayak course
Houses opposite the hotel
Pavel coaching
looking downstream
looking downstream 
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3 comments:
Great read bringing back memories of Junior Worlds 2006. I can picture it all including trying to feed 9 peopl e from that tiny apartment.
Great to see the photos. Hope all is going well. I know Wendy will have the wee kitchen up and running as smoothly as the Orchard Gardens within hours. Feeding that many kids will make weddings seem easy. Hope Dale & Wendy are having some fun too.
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