Broadband connection kit arrives
Having been waiting for 2 weeks for my broadband box of tricks to arrive I was excited to hear that when Simon & Justine had gone to collect the post it had been there. Justine, having the same surname as me did try to collect it & bring it back with them but they were not having it, insisting on seeing a passport.
I had two options, 1) wait until someone was heading into town & get a lift or do what I hadn't relished doing 2) drive into town myself while I had the benefit of the hire car. Decisions, decisions - I couldn't wait any longer to get my own internet service up & running - the novelty of sitting on the balcony picking up a weak wireless signal was wearing thin.
Decision made, I would drive to town but would park at the ferry port as it was on the side of town I would come in from.
So with mum to accompany me that's what I did & we successfully got to town & parked up.
First stop was the Post Office, in & out in record time happily clutching my Conn X box which contained my modem & hopefully all the instructions I needed to get online. After a wander around a few of the shops & a coffee stop we headed back to the car & safely negotiated the junction to rejoin the main road heading back out the way we had come in to town.
Now I have made this trip lots of times in Simon's car & thought I knew which road to take to get directly back home. However I obviously hadn't taken a great deal of notice which became apparent when I didn't recognise anything on the road we found ourselves on. No worries, I found a convenient turning place & we headed back & took an alternative turning. Shortly I had the awful feeling that I didn't recognise anything on this road either. It was either go back again or carry on & see where we finished up, after all it's quite a small island. I took the second option & carried on & eventually we found ourselves down some back lanes somewhere in Kalamaki eventually finding my way back onto the main road & back on track to home.
Adventure over, the next job was to set up my broadband internet.
I'm not going to report on how that went, surfice to say it was not straightforward & a few expletives turned the air a little blue but 2 days later it was working & has been ever since.
I had two options, 1) wait until someone was heading into town & get a lift or do what I hadn't relished doing 2) drive into town myself while I had the benefit of the hire car. Decisions, decisions - I couldn't wait any longer to get my own internet service up & running - the novelty of sitting on the balcony picking up a weak wireless signal was wearing thin.
Decision made, I would drive to town but would park at the ferry port as it was on the side of town I would come in from.
So with mum to accompany me that's what I did & we successfully got to town & parked up.
First stop was the Post Office, in & out in record time happily clutching my Conn X box which contained my modem & hopefully all the instructions I needed to get online. After a wander around a few of the shops & a coffee stop we headed back to the car & safely negotiated the junction to rejoin the main road heading back out the way we had come in to town.
Now I have made this trip lots of times in Simon's car & thought I knew which road to take to get directly back home. However I obviously hadn't taken a great deal of notice which became apparent when I didn't recognise anything on the road we found ourselves on. No worries, I found a convenient turning place & we headed back & took an alternative turning. Shortly I had the awful feeling that I didn't recognise anything on this road either. It was either go back again or carry on & see where we finished up, after all it's quite a small island. I took the second option & carried on & eventually we found ourselves down some back lanes somewhere in Kalamaki eventually finding my way back onto the main road & back on track to home.
Adventure over, the next job was to set up my broadband internet.
I'm not going to report on how that went, surfice to say it was not straightforward & a few expletives turned the air a little blue but 2 days later it was working & has been ever since.
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