Busy week on the island ....

Ready for the briefing - Maureen,  Mark and I in the centre

Arriving at Lygia for the race start

We have had what seems a really hectic week this week, starting with the boat race on Sunday.  Once again Tony agreed to increase his handicap by having me as a crew member.  We had Mike, Keith, Tony and I from last times and also with the addition of Tree (my long suffering landlady) who's also a part owner of the good ship "Jungle".  Before the race Tony stated that he was turning over a new leaf and going to be Mr. Chilled and not get wound up by the frailties of his long suffering crew.  His resolve was sorely tested right at the start of the race when due to his expert sailing skills we were late to the start line and ended up being about 8th or 9th across it!  Thing went from bad to worse when we got around the first buoy and tried to put up the spinnaka.  Unfortunately Keith had tied the ropes on incorrectly and when we pulled it up it was all tangled and upside down, good old Keith, but Tony still didn't blow!  This corrected we soon started gaining a few places as we headed towards the island, we then dropped the spinnaker and rounded the island in pretty good shape in about 4th place.  Up with the spinnaker again and again we cocked it up, whew!  Anyway suffice to say that we crossed the finish line in third place on the water making us second on handicap in the race, we only lost it by two and a half minutes so had it not been for the cock ups we would have won.  And Tony completed the whole course without exploding, Mr Cool incarnate methinks!

Heading for the start line

Tuesday was a curry night organised by Maureen and Mark at Il Porto cafe on the marina in Lefkas.  They have been debating whether to shut up for the winter season due to lack of trade so M&M decided to try and drum up some trade for them and try to keep them open for a while longer.  Everyone brought a curry dish and bargies, rice, noodles and the rest and then we all shared the results, everyone had more than enough to eat and as is usual with these things there was stacks left over at end.  It was a super evening with some great food and also I guess about sixty or more customers for the bar so I think everyone won.

Up Spinnakers - well for most anyway!

Arriving back at Lefkas Marina

I've spent the last few days wielding a chainsaw and cutting up some reserves of firewood for the winter because the bottom edge of the cold weather that Britain has been suffering is going to come across us sarting overnight tonight according to the weather forecast.  It seems that night time temperatures are going to get down to around 4 degree (FOUR!) and only getting up to about 8 or 9 during the day.  This looks like it will stay with us for about a week so I'm sure that up in the mountains at Assos it will be bloody cold maybe even a frost, good job we moved down here.

Not bad for being well into December is it?

We still managed to find time to go down for a coffee to Vasilliki and a lounge about in the harbour though despite all these things to do.  Our social life seems to be really busy at the moment it's almost like we have moved to a new country and not just an hour down the road, however, this may just be down to it being the festive season.

Well that's about it for this week, hopefully there will be other things to write about next week.