Yet more water...

Thought I had cured the leak last week but found out that it's still getting into Yanni's house, I suspected it was from the pipe which supplies our house which may be leaking before it enters the house. I don't have the equipment here to soft it and with only a fortnight left here I thought we would just leave it and see what happens but Yanni had different ideas! He called Spiros, who owns the house, and said that it needed something doing so yesterday we had a visit from the local odd job man Niko. Odd job being the operative word. He disagreed with me about the rising main and decided that it was our toilet and our shower (brand new last week!). Anyway he messed about with it for about five hours and then decided that after he had taken all the toilet cistern apart he needed a new part which he didn't have and so left us without a flushing toilet from mid afternoon yesterday until lunchtime today, big red bucket to the rescue. Today after repair the toilet is constantly dribbling into the pan, Niko has finished and the water is still going down below, he told me that he needs to rip out the bath as he thinks it's leaking underneath, I told him it's going to have to wait until after we leave when the water will be turned off and Yanni then won't have a leak anyway. IS GREEK SYSTEM!!

Picture: One end of the village seems to only have one "S" in the English spelling!

On Sunday we took Mantha and Jorgos to see the new house in Vounikas. They thought it was beautiful but didn't like the road up to it, which to be fair you don't want to be driving on after a few. We then had a late lunch out at a taverna in Sivota "No Problems" where we first when 12 years ago with our good friends Allen and Jean, although I don't think Jean will remember much of that occasion ;-)

Picture: Part of the Graden at the new house in Vounikas.

Tuesday it was back to Lefkada for us as we needed to go and discuss specifics with our new landlords Mike and Tree as they will be back in the UK when we actually move. All that sorted and a nice lunch with some of Tree's marvellous pumpkin soup enhanced with curry, and washed down with the obligatory wine it was off to Lefkas marina to catch up with some of the news from that part of the island. We went out for a smashing evening meal with Mark and Maureen and swapped stories of our summers as we hadn't seen either of them since May. In that time they had been to New Zealand and back so there was quite a bit to go at, so much in fact that I only caught the second half of the England match but I may have been better off missing it altogether.