Cracking on...

Welcome home Sanny!

Sandra arrived back from the UK on Thursday on her £14.99 Ryan air trip from Leeds Bradford airport to Corfu.  How do they do it for that sort of price?  Anyway I met her at the airport with a taxi and we caught the ferry back to Igoumentisa and had a lovely drive home and then out for a meal that night.

On Saturday Debbie and Jez set off on their caravanning expedition into the wilds of the Penepolese, which is the southern part of mainland Greece, although I suppose since the Corinth canal was built it's technically an island.  They seem to be having a great time and sent us some photos one of which I'll share here of the Dhiakoptos railway, which looks very fascinating and worth a visit for anyone visiting the area.  Thanks for the photos you guys.

Dhiakoptos Railway (Thanks D&J)

On Monday we were asked by the assistant marina manager if we would move our mooring onto another pontoon to make way for the rapd influx of charter boats which are now going back into the water pending the start of the season.  We knew this would happen as they originally said that we could only stay where we were for the winter so that was fine.  We were given the choice of several places to "park" but decided on H pontoon nearest to the town where we can watch the comings and going on the town quay.

Our new view from the back of the boat.

Stripped off and ready for a serious scrub down.

 Having moved and the weather being so smashing we thought we may as well take the bull by the horns and strip Lesanda down, acid and pressure wash her decks and then polish her to try and bring her back to her former glory.  Two days hard work later and we are sat on her pristine new clean decks with the tent back up and enjoying the sunshine.  We have used a new polish on the boat which was a recommended "Best Buy" through a magazine article.  Jeremy ordered some for both of us and Kev & Linda kindly brought it back from the UK when they returned.  I can honestly say I've never used a vehicle polish like it before, it's just so easy to wipe off and buff up it's unbelievable.  Crystal Glo is the name of the product and it works!!  I think it was about £22 per litre but well worth it.  With that sort of advertising I expect the manufacturers will be queueing up to send me samples of their offerings now (NOT).

Cleaned polished and tent back up.

Anyway Liz has returned home to Greece from the UK yesterday so another little ray of sunshine descends on the land of the gods.  Bliss.....