Thursday 14 May 2015

Once more into the system....

Last supper in Sivota with great friends Ray & Linda.
 Well a great deal has happened since last Thursday.  We are now two thousand miles further north west and I have a coat on in the house (about 12 degrees today!).

We had a couple of farewell meals before we left Lefkas last Saturday morning, the first with Ray and Linda in Sivota and the second with our Scandinavian pals Tommy and Anna at Ev Zyn in Lefkas town.  It was sad to leave but unfortunately when you've gotta go you've gotta go.
Me having a nightcap by starlight.
 So Saturday morning at around about 03:30 we set off for Igoumenitsa, arriving there at 05:00 ish but then having to wait until quarter to six before the ticket office opened to exchange our confirmations for the actual tickets.  I don't see why they can't do like the airline an just use the email as tickets but that would be "Greek system".  Anyway we had a great passage back to Venice both setting off and arriving precisely on schedule.
...and of course Sanny having hers too.

Hull looking gray.
 Being a Sunday when we got to Venice there were no HGV's on the Italian motorways and we had a great drive through Italy, Switzerland and onwards to our overnight stop at Keppel-Grafenhausen in Germany.  Mondays drive had much more traffic but with the exception of Strasbourg things were very free flowing but even there it was no worse than usual.
Almost home.

Onwards and a lovely warm and sunny drive north through a little of France then Luxembourg and finally Belgium, onto the north sea coast at Zeebrugge and then the P&O ferry to Hull which also set off precisely on schedule.

09:00 Tuesday morning we were in ASDA in Hull getting some groceries to last us the next few days whilst we are staying with Sandra's dad.  Called in at our local health centre on the way back home and got me back in the NHS system.

The doctor has been ace, sorted me out with the English version of my Greek drugs and reduced the dosage of a couple of them.  I showed him my records of BP and blood sugar stats that I have been recording since coming out of hospital and he immediately said that I no longer needed to monitor my sugar levels.  Good news but I will do it a couple of time a week in order to reassure myself things are still OK.  Sandra's dad is improving hand over fist since we got back, however, I ain't really sure we are going to be able to spend anywhere near as much time as we have out in Greece going forward.  He seems to be quite dependant on Sandra and is certainly making the most of her being here, she wouldn't have it any other way mind!

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