The Move...

This week has been taken up primerely with moving house. Last Friday we took the first car load of stuff from Assos a week before we had planned to taking advantage in a break in the generaly rainy weather. Whilst in Lefkas with the first load we picked up the trailer we were borrowing from Tree & Mike to make it easier to bring over the major item of furniture and washing machine etc. Then it was back to Assos for our last night in the Epirus mountains. It's about one and a half hours from our old home to our new one so not really a problem going back to visit the good friends we made there. Up Early on Saturday morning to dismantle the satalite system and get the trailer packed as well as the car and top box once more and then with a wave and good wishes our life as Assos residents comes to an end.

Pictures 1&2: inside our new house house in Vounikas.

Lifting all the furniture up into the new house was backbreaking to say the least but at least it's now all done and dusted. Waher plumbed in and cloths lines tied up so Sandra can get on with her domestic science as she was beginning to have withdrawel symptoms.


We have been collecting wood and (after having borrowed Mikes chain saw) sawed it all up for fuel, it's absolutely marvellouse having not just one but two ways of heating the home up when we have been used to have little or no heat at all.

Picture: First log fire and lovely and toasty it was too.

We have had a few swims in the pool since we have been here the weather down at this level seems to be about four degrees warmer than what it is up in the mountains.

Picture: Sandra making the most of the pool while the weather is still warm enough.

We actually returned to Assos yesterday to check that everything was fine with the old house and hand the keys back, and also to say goodbye to some people who we missed with moving a little prematurely. Everyone seemed really pleased to see us you would think that we had been missing for months! Jorgos had also taken delivery of a new SKY+ box for me which I had ordered from England but it had not arrived when we left but fortunately it's nice to have friends.


Picture: We can still have our evening meals outside, well sometimes anyway!