Thursday 7 June 2012

Last blog from Greece for a while...

As rare a sight as the Venus transit.    
 It's now almost two weeks since Geoff went back to the UK and his presence is still being felt here.  I had to include this picture of him in the Katoghi getting money out of his wallet just to prove that, despite many rumours to the contrary he does know the combination to the lock and also how to disarm all the booby traps on route to withdrawing money.  A rare event I know but here is incontrovertible evidence.


Vasiliki by moonlight.
Being the insomniac that I am I was up at 4am the other morning and thought this picture from our balcony looking over Vasiliki bay was well worth the effort of trying to avoid camera shake, well it works for me anyway.  








Stuff piled up ready for it's move.
We have spent much of this week packing up our house prior to us going back to England for the summer.  Most of the furniture has been sold to one couple who are setting up a new home on dry land in Evia after living on board a yacht for a great many years.  In this respect they are doing an exact mirror image of what we are doing which is quite fortuitous for us both.  Other bits and pieces, like the big telly and oven, we have delivered to their new owners during the week.  I think we are all very happy with the outcome.  
Timoni, the sister ship to ours in Sivota.


Yesterday we found out that "Timoni" the sister ship to our new boat, which has been bought by Tony and Liz, was sitting in Sivota.  So we've been on a little hunt to try and see if ours has appeared down here from Corfu yet.  We didn't find ours but at the moment it would be a good man who could tell the difference between them, That is until I get set loose with saw, hammer and angle grinder!!

Oh well, that's about it for now, we leave Vournikas on Monday morning at about 5am to get our ferry from Igoumenitsa to Venice.  We should arrive home sometime Thursday morning all being well and then it's twelve weeks away from our beloved Greek islands, never mind I'm sure the grand kids will deflect some of the gloom.  Next blog from blighty if the snow isn't too deep!

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