Thursday 2 June 2011

Last week before the summer recess....

Second place isn't bad seeing as we were in the doldrums.
 A really eventful week this week as we have been showing Geoff all the Island sights we have not yet introduced him to.  We have also eaten out quite a few times this week as we are trying to run stocks down before setting off back to England next Tuesday.  This means that next weeks blog will be a couple of days late as the European police don't like you using a laptop whilst driving, although I think you'd get away with it for quite a while here in Greece.

A few of the guests at the after race event
Geoff tries to beat nature in a thunderstorm.
Sunday brought the benefit race for Mark & Maureen from Lefkas to Preveza and return.  We sailed Izola, that is Sean, Jane and I, and when we got out to the west of the bridge which connects the island to the mainland we thought we may be in for a great sail.  As the bridge only opens on the hour and the race was scheduled to start at 3 o'clock we went through at two and got a little early practice in, as it was the start didn't happen until

 3:40.  I certainly need all the practice I can get and it was good fun until about halfway to Preveza the wind just failed. For about forty minutes we just kept spinning more or less on the spot and the wind vane at the masthead was going around like a helicopter on idle, in the distance we could see a thunder storm coming towards us so there was a chance that the wind could build which it did.  from there on we had a tremendous sail never going less than 7.5 knots and with the edge of the boat deeply rooted way down into the sea, fantastic stuff.  Thanks to Tony & Liz for loaning us the boat and for Sean and Jane for allowing me to hinder their days sailing.  The end result saw us finish in second place after the handicap had been sorted behind Jungle which had Tony and his crew aboard.  I think there were about 13 or 14 starters so we didn't do too bad.

Just a little light lunch needed it is later than 12 o'clock.
 Tuesday morning brought a Thunder storm and as we had intended going for a ride down the west coast it had to be somewhat delayed, it's the first time since we have been a Vournikas that the water has threatened to enter the house and Geoff was playing at King Canute trying to stem the flow, he must have worked hard at it because we didn't get a drop over the threshold.


That's more like it me getting all my juice from the prawns!
We finally got off and toured the West coast and back through Karya and stopping for our Evening meal at one of our favourite taverna's, the Katogi in Vafkeri, a super meal and excellent company for the evening even if we did end up with a shopping list to get from the UK when we return, no problem the food is worth it!

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