Rain, wind and a little sunny interlude...

Sanny at Paleros Yacht Club

 Well Easter has been and gone, the weather has probably been the worst ever at Easter in the six years we have been out here.  We have had some bright spells but a lot of strong wind and rain as well and at times quite cold, in fact I've had to resort to long trousers and socks again some of the time.

The meal of the week was once again at Paleros, taj panorama takes a bit of beating as far as none Greek food is concerned and once again Demitri and Salim did not let us down.  Having said that we went to Ev Zyn (Ef Sin) last night and I had a wonderfully hot chicken curry the best I have had there yet.  May have it again on Saturday when we go again, yum.

Farewell Sea Symphony 

Dredging the channel, finding the odd yacht or two.

Last Saturday saw the departure of our fairly long term neighbour Dave who has sold his boat, Sea Symphony and is returning to Washington to his family.  A 51 foot boat is a lot for one man to handle especially when you get into your eighties.  It has been bought by Mike and Lesley and they headed off for Nidri on Sunday where they are going to start doing the work they intend doing to her.  Good luck to all and of course to Sea Symphony she's a classy bit of stuff.

Dredging seems to be continuing in the Lefkas channel and the boat you see keeled over was dragged out of the water by the crane team as they went along yesterday.  It looks like it's been on its side for some time but until they moved it I was not aware of it's existence, it is certainly not showing in the pics I took the day before of the same place.  Project anyone?

We still have no marina WiFi so internet is a slow old thing at the moment, I can get a couple of free connections from bars but they are dire to say the least.  I spoke to Spiros, the marina manager, a couple of days ago and he assured me that they were hoping to get it back this week but are changing broadband suppliers and having some new kit put in as a result to improve things.  However as these things come at a cost he says that the people who get it free now (annual contracts) will have to start paying for it and it may not be cheap.  I think we'll see how much and then investigate all the options.