Bet you wondered where I'd gone (Part 1)
Apologies for leaving it so long between posts. You may recall that I said I had a friend arriving from the UK to stay with me for a week. Well Jan arrived, had a thoroughly good time (I hope) & has departed - just where does the time go to. In fact 2 other very good friends have also been here on Zakynthos during September too. Denny, who I came out on holiday here with in May, was here for a 1 week & her husband Rich was here for 2 weeks. He had an additional week having not been in May & also because he has recently undergone a major operation. It was really lovely to see them both & spend some time with them relaxing in the sun.
Jan arrived on the 11th Sept & from where I live I watched as her plane descended onto the runway. Full of excitement I went with Simon to pick her up from the airport. It was great to see her again & I couldn't wait to show her my new home & 'her room'
Jan soon settled herself in & before long we were chilling out, catching up with each others lives, putting the world to rights & supping a few glasses of wine.
The following day the plan was that we would get Jan to the bike hire place in Laganas, to organise hiring a push bike for the week. However, Sia made various hand gestures when we said where we were going & the next we knew she called us into the garage & offered Otto's bike for Jan to use. After a few trial circuits of the courtyard & some slight adjustment to the saddle height we were both up & mobile.
We cycled along my now familiar route to reach the beach hotel that I had become accustomed to using. We spent some time there, swimming in both the sea & the hotel pool & generally relaxing. After lunch we walked the length of the beach to the far end at Agios Sostis to meet Denny & Rich where we spent more time relaxing.
While there we had close up views of the fire planes overhead as they went about scooping up sea water to carry & drop on yet more fires due to the dry conditions. Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough with my reflexes to avoid cutting it's tail off.
More to come in Part 2 coming shortly.
Jan arrived on the 11th Sept & from where I live I watched as her plane descended onto the runway. Full of excitement I went with Simon to pick her up from the airport. It was great to see her again & I couldn't wait to show her my new home & 'her room'
Jan soon settled herself in & before long we were chilling out, catching up with each others lives, putting the world to rights & supping a few glasses of wine.
The following day the plan was that we would get Jan to the bike hire place in Laganas, to organise hiring a push bike for the week. However, Sia made various hand gestures when we said where we were going & the next we knew she called us into the garage & offered Otto's bike for Jan to use. After a few trial circuits of the courtyard & some slight adjustment to the saddle height we were both up & mobile.
We cycled along my now familiar route to reach the beach hotel that I had become accustomed to using. We spent some time there, swimming in both the sea & the hotel pool & generally relaxing. After lunch we walked the length of the beach to the far end at Agios Sostis to meet Denny & Rich where we spent more time relaxing.
While there we had close up views of the fire planes overhead as they went about scooping up sea water to carry & drop on yet more fires due to the dry conditions. Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough with my reflexes to avoid cutting it's tail off.
More to come in Part 2 coming shortly.
posted by Sandra at
6:38 am
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home