End of winter....

Brian and Jez on their birthdays.

 Once again I'm plagiarising other peoples work and using photo's that owe absolutely nothing us.  Thanks Jules, Linda and Karen for the images.

Sunday saw the mutual birthdays of Brian and Jez, and an off Island meal out was duly organised at Ag.Nikolaos, near the airport turning.  About fifty or so people turned out and we all had a fine evening of banter, laughter and food, not to mention the drink....  I said NOT to mention the drink.  Some people didn't get back to their boats until three in the morning and many a thick head was very obvious the next day!

Superb rainbox captured by Jules.

 On Monday Sandra and I decamped to Sivota to reside at Ray and Linda's house while they are on tour back to the UK.  It's always a pleasure to stay there with the stupendous views over to Kefalonia and Ithaka.  It's great sat out on the terrace watching the ferries negotiate between the islands on their way to and from Patras all lit up like Christmas trees in the night time.  Thanks for the loan of the bed guys!

We do need to spend some of our time back at Lefkada however with the boat being up for sale so we came back last night and went across to Palairos to have an Indian meal with Deb and Jez.

Ray, en-route (Photo Linda) 

Debs and Sanny (Photo Karen)

With the clocks having moved forward the sunset here doesn't happen until eight o'clock time so it doesn't actually get dark while about half past and the daytime temperatures are now well established in the lower to mid twenties.  This and the fact that many people's winter mooring fees expire at the end of the month seems to have prompted a radical exodus from the marina.  Our pontoon now looks desolate, Bagpuss with Ricky and Andrea have gone up to Paxos, Deb and Jez in Nita, are doing a our of the inland sea which is a bit of a sea trial for their new yacht.  Several other people are beavering away ready to make a swift exit into the wild blue yonder and get their sailing season under way.

Us?  We're just waiting for someone to turn up with a bag full of cash, well you know what they say? you can wish in one hand....