The bags are packed, we're ready to go...

Ahhh Indian food at last....

Well, our time here is almost at an end.  We leave for Manchester airport tomorrow morning so I'm having to do the blog a little early today in order to get the computer packed into the case ready for going.  To be fair, Sandra has had us all packed up for a couple of days now, she is really ready to feel a little warmth on her back.  It's not that the weather has been really unkind to us just a typical February scene, we have only had one day of rain and one of snow the rest of the time it's been dry and even sunny at times but the sun has no real heat in it and the wind cuts through you like a knife.

Not that it's cold or anything!

Lock gates into Hull marina.

 We finally managed to have an Indian meal in a restaurant last weekend.  It was nectar, and well worth the wait.  We have still not had fish and chips since we returned to the UK but that is going to be rectified tonight all being well!

We went to see Maureen and Mark at their home on Sunday.  They were both in very good form and we had a smashing day with them.  I helped Mo with the construction of her new raised beds for the garden and had a really great meal with, thanks Mo.  We'll be calling in again tomorrow on the way to the airport to drop off the some garden containers it'll look great come the summer.

Yesterday we took No. two son, Chris, to the hospital to have three wisdom teeth removed, poor lad!  Never mind at least they don't grow back again and it'll be worth having to drink soup for a week.  While Chris was having his operation we took the opportunity to have a look around Hull city center, which we hadn't been to for about fifteen years, it was much improved from what we remembered it with many pedestrian areas and generally very clean, although it's fairly obvious from the closed shops and sales going on that they are suffering from the recession along with everyone else.

Not quite Lefkas but Hull's answer to it.

The big downside was that it was bitterly cold with  a strong wind blowing straight down the Humber estuary and air temperatures of 2 degrees the wind chill must have been well into minus figures, Brrrr.

Price's Quay Hull.

Anyway we got the call from the hospital to go and pick Chris up before we both died of hypothermia and came home with an unusually speechless son, I'm sure it won't last for long!

Oh well I think that's about it for this week, I need to go and wash the hire car before we take it back.  With being in a really rural area the roads are very mucky and the white car is now a deep shade of murky grey.  I would feel guilty taking it back in that state.

Hopefully we should arrive back in Lefkas some time around one o'clock in the morning on Saturday, but you never know with a fair wind we may have a quicker than expected journey.