A lovely day out

Friends Sandra and Les have rented an apartment on the mainland up in Assos, north east from the island of Lefkas, you can read about their lovely life at http://www.leswaddy-fromyorkshiretogreeece.com

Anyway, we had a day off and went up to spend the afternoon with them and have a bbq. While on our short hour journey, or what should have been an hour journey, Mark was talking nineteen to the dozen to Tony (the driver) and this distraction caused Tony to take a wrong turning. We meandered our way up into the hills through a small village until we thought we were well and truly lost. However, just through the village, in true Greek style we came across a new road, right in the middle of nowhere.

You can see from the picture below where it starts in relation to the village.

The odd thing is, it's not unusual for Greece!!

We did eventually find our way there and you can see from the picture with the backdrop of the mountains what a fantastic setting it was.

They're on the side of a mountain with view in both directions along a fantastic valley and more mountains on the other side. Absolutely stunning and quite apart from the birdsong.

Sun shinning, bbq on the go, drink in hand - perfect.

Kαλο πασχα Happy Easter

Spring has sprung well and truly here now, all the flowers are out, the swifts are back to begin nesting and we can cycle without gloves, hats and scarves.

We've had the downhill race again and couple of weeks ago, but unfortunately this year we just didn't have time to think about a buggy so we dusted last years off and added the equivalent of another person in weight in the form anchor chain. This years event was much busier than last year with some spiffy looking buggies. Haven't got the piccies of the camera yet but will do so and add them to this blog. Time trials put us 4th on the grid (Mark not amused about that!!). Final run was a bit of a hair raising event with us so close on the wheels of the buggy in front there was smoke pouring off their tyre. We carreared down the hill and round the first bend locked together. When we finally got unlocked we passed them into the final bend in a bit of death defying moment to finish 2nd again. All this happened over 1 minute 54 seconds. We'd cut 50 seconds off last years time and still only came 2nd. Next year will really be exciting!!! Great day had by all as usual.

Summertime has had some major leaps forward and we're out of the shed, back in the yard. Thankfully the sun has been shining for the last 2 weeks. The mast went on yesterday and next week she'll be back in the waterm nearly 2 years since she came out. We're almost done - what a mamoth task it has been. Next blog should contain the slideshow of all the work carried out.

This Sunday and Monday we're having a couple of days off, one for our friends Easter bash and one for the race to Palearos. We're keeping our fingers crossed that the weather will be kind and we don't get soaked.

Have a lovely Easter everyone. Καλο Πασχα