We're on our way home...

I've seen the light!

Sandra can now see what she's cooking.

It's been a quiet week here in Vournikas with not much going on.  I have fitted the new light fitting over the kitchen island, we needed this as the house is very dark with regards to natural light especially in winter, of course this works well in terms of keeping the house warm in winter and cool in summer but isn't conducive to Sandra culinary exploits.  Sandra bought the fitting from IKEA a few weeks ago and I have only just got around to fitting it.  Was it worth the pirouetting in the vaulted ceiling to hide the wiring, or course it was, it does the job perfectly and we are very pleased with it.

Small saw - Big log

Also got all of this winters logs finally reduced to size and ready for burning it's amazing how big the chunks of wood are that you can cut with a small electric chainsaw if you go steady and let it feed itself.  Now just have a pile to saw up ready for next winter and store for drying.  They burn much better if they are dry and seem to give out more heat so with luck we are sorted on that front for the foreseeable future.

Some for this year - start of some for next

Monday was valentines day so we had arranged to go up to the village of Vafkeri to the marvellous Katoghi restaurant (http://www.letseat.at/thekatoghi) with the only other two lovers on the island, Liz and Tony.  Tony being the full monty when it comes to romance bought Liz a single red rose (not doing any favours to us other men who now have to live up to these precedents once set!)  This is an award winning eatery and is well worth the visit for anyone who comes to Lefkas for an holiday Peter and Alison will alway offer you a really fine welcome and the food is spot on!  I would have put some picture on here of the food and restaurant as Sandra took the camera but we had such a great evening we didn't find the time to take any photo's.  Doohhh

Unfortunately there have been problems with Sandra's dad's oil tanks in the last week, the upshot of this being that we have decided to go home for a couple of weeks.  Managed to get two return flights flights from Athens to Manchester for just over £400 this added to a bus to and overnight stop in Athens and the train from Manchester to York it'll be about £650 all in all for the round trip.  We are now just about packed and ready for setting off for the bus to take us to Athens just waiting for the clock to go around a bit!  Anyway with luck we should be blogging from the UK next week!