Sunday 10 March 2013

Dealing with Mozzies

One of the things we have had to deal with in the past is the propensity of mosquitoes to use us as their restaurant. We have used various repellents in the past and found citronella to be the best though DEET is also useful. The trouble with DEET is that it tends to make you repellent to other humans whereas citronella is quite a nice smell. Copious quantities of this along with a few citronella candles are on the list of things to buy and send down to Spain. The other solution is to anchor offshore where you are less likely to be found by the irritating buzzing beasties but this is not always possible and we don't want to restrict where we visit based on being inaccessible to mosquitoes.

However, we have also been thinking of using mozzie nets over our bunks. Has anyone else had experience of this? Answers by email or in the comments gratefully accepted.

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