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We received many concerned emails after our El Hierro volcano log - please be assured that we are perfectly safe and we are having a good time. And we even managed to get our hands on some cash just in time too, it had been weeks since Adam had eaten a pizza and he was starting to exhibit signs of withdrawl. After a few false starts we managed to figure out the transportation system and got ourselves to the Capital, Valverde, and an ATM. It was a near miss though. We set out to find the bus stop, which we did efficiently – we are professional tourists now. We found a nice, newly built bus shelter, with a bus lane, and the word “BUS” clearly painted on the road. The only thing missing was the actual bus which, no matter how long we sat there, would not materialize. We walked back into town and asked (but mostly gesticulated) some locals about the bus and found that the stop had been relocated to an unmarked section of road along the waterfront. An hour later a small passenger van arrived with a little sign on the dashboard. A van we had seen earlier in the morning when it passed us while we sat at the clearly identified but now defunct bus stop. We hoped in the van and drove half an hour to the nearest not abandoned village and caught a bus to Valverde. It was small town, too small to have a map we were told at the tourist office, but it was pretty and we were in time to see more socialist party demonstrations in the streets. We are currently looking for a weather window in order to head south to the Cape Verde islands. The wind has been howling for several days and we can see the spray from the waves as they crash over the breakwall so it might be a while before we set sail. We are trying to set a new standard of fun, vomit free sailing after all.