A little late...

Sandra & David at lake Zhero.

Firstly I must apologise for not sending out a blog last week.  Yet again we had severe internet problems, this time with the company with whom I'm now having to pay for it.  This, as will not surprise people, goes against the grain a little with me as I really do like to get what I pay for.

The company are called super speed although I think they may now be super sloth.  I first couldn't find a contact number for them as the link on their site insisted on just passing me to paypal, if they can't get the links on the web site right what hope is there.

Just one of many splendid views.

Fag and Photo time.

 After two days of nattering we got them to send out engineers to find out what the problem was and they even sent them to my boat (probably trying to say it was my fault) to see if it was fixed now.  I was wise to this trick though and ended up telling them the MAC address' of the faulty bit of equipment and offering to go and fix it myself.  In the end the guy realised that I knew more about the problem then he did and with the aid of an interpreter over the phone we managed to get to the bottom of it all.  The company has even agreed to re-emburse me for the time when the web was unavailable.  It pays to pester!

One of the wild tortoises we met en-route.

Sunset over Lefkada.

 Last Saturday we took David, a friend from Vafkeri, for a mystery tour on the mainland.  He doesn't like driving much so Sandra drove his car and we had a cracking day out visiting many of the places we used to go to when we lived on the mainland.  David stated that he would like to see a tortoise while he was out because he had never seen one in the wild, of course we obliged by finding not one but two, I think it made his day.  He would have also liked to have spotted some snakes but the only ones we got to see had been Greeked (run over).  Finishing the day with a meal at out favourite fish restaurant at Lygia down the mainland coast.

I think he had a really special day out, I know that we did and we look forward to the next time when we'll take him somewhere else.

We managed to grab a night out with the "Duchess" AKA Debbie's mother Nita the other night.  It's really great to see her all hail and hearty and visiting this beautiful country once again.  Great night folks hopefully see you all again soon.

The ongoing saga of our flood damage insurance claim has moved forward a step since I last wrote the blog.  The ombudsman's office has ruled in our favour and the on the third time of asking the insurance company has agreed to reinstate our flood cover to our policy.  This means that we are now at the same point as we were five months ago.  The loss adjuster has been back in touch asking for estimates and invoices so hopefully we should see some movement soon, don't hold your breath this is insurance we are talking about!

Lesanda back in Summer mode even if the weather isn't!

We had some great weather at the end of last week and the beginning of this so without fear we took down Lesanda's winter cover and re-erected the summer bimini.  Two days later it started blowing like a very windy thing and raining mucky rain and it looks like continuing until after the weekend, blame us, we shouldn't have done it!!

Proud Grany Liz with her latest addition.

We have also paid Ray and Linda a visit up a Sivota and had a lovely lunch and catchup.  It's amazing how time passes when you get talking, we were sheduled to leave by about four O'clock and it was well gone five when I even looked at my watch!  Thanks for the great afternoon you two.

Best news of the week came from Liz back in the UK.  Her daughter has just given birth to a baby boy, Thomas Joseph, 8lb 5oz.  They have waited so long for this and we are delighted that it's finally happened, congratulations to Sarah & James and best not forget the Granny with the smile Liz.  Hope Thomas has a great and long life in front of him.