Kicking our heels in Agios Nikolaos

The day did not start well - a flat tyre argh!

Once that was sorted we were able to leave the car as planned for a thorough clean before we wrap it in it's "pajamas" for the 8 - 10 weeks we are in the UK.

This gave us four hours to wander around Agios Nikolaos to enjoy cold lemonade at one end and lunch at the other - a nice way to spend our last day.

Now, off to do ironing and cleaning to leave the house ready for us next time.......

Chronia Polla (Χρονια Πολλα) Rodanthe

Today is the name day for all women and girls named Rodanthe.  To "celebrate" we took a walk to the Secret Plateau and the site of the battle in which Rodanthe, the heroine of my story died.

I will soon need to write the key battle chapter at the end of the book so I wanted the area to be fresh in my mind before we set off for the UK.

Another way to celebrate this day is to show this photo of Nigel at work in his studio on a figure of a young girl sat working at her crochet - in my version of the story this scene occurs whilst Rodanthe was at school.

Legal driver

After our marathon at the car registration office our last instruction was to return a week later on Fri (31st May) to collect the registration document.  Erring on the side of caution we left it until after the weekend and went yesterday.  We were out of the office again in less than 15 mins - fantastic.  Mind you, after all of this we will never complain about the DVLA!!

The green card proudly held in the photo is the registration document.

Today I let Alan drive us to the bookshop in Elounda, where I had an exciting €40 credit to spend in return for the large box of books we took in last week.

My kindle charger was accidentally left behind in the UK so it is good to have real books in my hands again.

This is the good life!

Last night we enjoyed an evening on Hilary and Phil’s balcony with Phil’s Mum and his sister Rita the birthday girl, plus Ken.  After a good game of girl’s v boys Trivial Pursuits which the girls won (hooray) we had a BBQ supper.

So today we decided to walk off some calories in the foothills of the Thripti Mountains above Kavousi.  Looking out from our balcony we have a good view of this area so it was good to get close up.

We first did this walk on 5^th November 2003.  As this picture shows it was a wet start to the walk on that occasion.

This steep shale mountainside looks like it could landslide at any moment but the ancient path that crosses it is still intact.

A small church provided us shelter from the rain last time – today it was a place of welcome shade.  Last time when we exited the church I snapped this rainbow.

 Today's view was bright the sunny view.

Prompting us to decide we deserved a lazy afternoon on the beach.....