Today dawned bright and sunny and stayed that way throughout the day. The pool got a good work out and although the water was not that warm on entry, it did refresh.
We went out for pastries for breakfast and these were delicious although I am not sure that baclava is intended for that meal, it certainly tastes OK.
In the evening, we decided to order from a local take-out place called Granny's Kitchen!! Having placed a large order for all six of us, we had a Greek aperitif, which we had bought some time earlier and which, as most Greek aperitifs do, tasted like paint stripper and then set off for the restaurant. When we got there, the guy looked at us rather forlornly and said that they had had quite a lot of people into the restaurant at the tables that evening and that they had not even been able to start the order we had placed. A 'Fawlty Towers-type conversation between us, the head waiter and the unseen chef in the kitchen revealed that our chances of his even thinking about our order were remote, to say the least. Well, ".....it might be 45 minutes more, etc, etc". All this pretty soon convinced us that 45 DAYS more was more likely and there was some sort of chef's revolt going on in the kitchen. So we abandonded the project and went next door to the bakery, picked up some of their left-overs and dined on that. As none of us were that hungry, it sufficed well when washed down with some Greek wine.
A friend of Simon's (they share the same breed of dog), who lives for the winter on the island, visited us during the day and we will have lunch with him at the end of the week at what sounds like a nice place along the coast.
The villa is situated on the side of a hill set back from Paphos and overlooking the town or city. The sea is in the background. Just off the beach is the wreck of a ship called the Demetrious ll. This ship was wrecked in March 1998 in a storm. She was Honduran-flagged and the crew were rescued but all their certificates of competency were found to be forged!! She is just a small vessel and it was felt that she would have cost more than she was worth to salvage so she remains on the reef a few hundred meters offshore. Presumably, the weather, salt water, rust and time will remove her but this will take a long period.
It must be the time of year,but there are lots of, what appear to be, millipedes here and they crawl all over the place and often get into the house. Millie is very fond of them and carefully carries them out again. They are harmless and rather charming in a way.
Well, Wednesday has also dawned bright and sunny but no plans yet, perhaps we do some exploring although 'chilling' by the pool sounds pretty good too.
I suspect that, despite statements to the contrary, MAC is doing quite a bit of work still whilst she is here. Even the slow web connection hasn't halted that.
Homer is enjoying himself and sits out on a sun lounger during the day. He is already a deep brown so we don't know what color he will go if he stays out in the sun too long. So far, he has not been in the pool and perhaps that would not be a good idea for him.
I apologize for any spelling mistakes in this blog, the spell checker seems to think I am writing Greek so when I turn it on, it says EVERYTHING is incorrectly spelled. This means I have to revert to an eye-balls Mark l version of the spell checker and this may mean I miss the odd thing. Also, I really don't seem to have got the hang of uploading photos which seem to have a life of their own when the blog gets published.
'til tomorrow.........
A friend of Simon's (they share the same breed of dog), who lives for the winter on the island, visited us during the day and we will have lunch with him at the end of the week at what sounds like a nice place along the coast.
The villa is situated on the side of a hill set back from Paphos and overlooking the town or city. The sea is in the background. Just off the beach is the wreck of a ship called the Demetrious ll. This ship was wrecked in March 1998 in a storm. She was Honduran-flagged and the crew were rescued but all their certificates of competency were found to be forged!! She is just a small vessel and it was felt that she would have cost more than she was worth to salvage so she remains on the reef a few hundred meters offshore. Presumably, the weather, salt water, rust and time will remove her but this will take a long period.
It must be the time of year,but there are lots of, what appear to be, millipedes here and they crawl all over the place and often get into the house. Millie is very fond of them and carefully carries them out again. They are harmless and rather charming in a way.
Well, Wednesday has also dawned bright and sunny but no plans yet, perhaps we do some exploring although 'chilling' by the pool sounds pretty good too.
I suspect that, despite statements to the contrary, MAC is doing quite a bit of work still whilst she is here. Even the slow web connection hasn't halted that.
Homer is enjoying himself and sits out on a sun lounger during the day. He is already a deep brown so we don't know what color he will go if he stays out in the sun too long. So far, he has not been in the pool and perhaps that would not be a good idea for him.
I apologize for any spelling mistakes in this blog, the spell checker seems to think I am writing Greek so when I turn it on, it says EVERYTHING is incorrectly spelled. This means I have to revert to an eye-balls Mark l version of the spell checker and this may mean I miss the odd thing. Also, I really don't seem to have got the hang of uploading photos which seem to have a life of their own when the blog gets published.
'til tomorrow.........
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