Annnnddddd relax.....

Chinese Dale

 Well the blog wasn't done yesterday as we spent most of it travelling to Corfu Airport to send our eldest Grandson, Dale, back to blighty.  It was his first real independent journey and I think he was apprehensive to say the least, I think he had visions of getting on the wrong plane and ending up somewhere exotic like Birmingham rather than in God's chosen county Yorkshire.

Expressive Dale

We will certainly miss his friendly banter and exhibitionism around here now he's gone.  I have never seen anyone live for food, beer, and using free WiFi like he does.  Any time you walk into a bar or taverna three question come out, generally in this order.  Bigggg Beer? Have they got WiFi here? and finally what's to eat?  For the first four days we thought he might well drown himself in the amber stuff but at least that appetite, once sated, diminished a little, kids and candy shops comes to mind.

Dale with Attitude.

The phone is a permanent fixture in his hands, his thumbs rattling away almost as fast as I can type on a keyboard, there may well be a generation of young people who suffer from RSA because of it.  SnapChat seems to be his favourite application as he take thousands of photo's primarily of himself with various facial contortions and sends them winging over the ether to his mates then giggles at the replies.

Dale and micro mate Spiros.

Cruise ship in Corfu.

 Anyway we think he enjoyed spending time out here with the oldies (that's everyone barring me!) and was always polite pleasant which was to be a bit of a bonus to us as we have seen some very unpleasant teenagers back in the UK.  I don't really know what his perceptions of living in a small yacht were before he came but I think he found it a little compact and bijou when he got here, he kept referring to it as living in a tent.

Thanks Dale for making the last ten or eleven days very interesting and entertaining for me and your Grandma now we can breath out (because you took up more room than the pair of us put together) and wind down again now.