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Post by katet on Sept 12, 2016 21:46:28 GMT
Loving your reports, Dennis. I, too, should be able to recognise you at the Bourtzi - hopefully will be calling there for refreshment this weekend.
Is Vera's dress one of the new Skiathos ones? ....... and been dying to ask - did you bring an empty suitcase with you for all this shopping?
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Post by *Di* on Sept 13, 2016 9:31:11 GMT
Loving your reports, Dennis. I, too, should be able to recognise you at the Bourtzi - hopefully will be calling there for refreshment this weekend. Is Vera's dress one of the new Skiathos ones? ....... and been dying to ask - did you bring an empty suitcase with you for all this shopping? Kate.... we were there when Dennis and Vera left on the coach in July.... Dennis was wearing 5 shirts, 3 pairs of short and 4 of Vera's dresses!!
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Post by katet on Sept 13, 2016 14:11:41 GMT
Hahaha, Di - love that mental image
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Post by dennisn on Sept 13, 2016 14:18:38 GMT
AND fifty shades of lipstick!
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Post by dennisn on Sept 13, 2016 14:21:11 GMT
Actually we came out with a total of nearly nine kilos under our allowance, even including the cakes Vera was bringing. We had perfectly enough clothes for our holiday, but we like to get an odd thingy or two.
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Post by katet on Sept 13, 2016 15:06:03 GMT
Don't blame you at all, Dennis! The 'thingys' I buy in Skiathos are extra special to me - like the lovely sandals I bought last summer from the grumpy man on Pap St :-)
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Post by dennisn on Sept 13, 2016 17:08:26 GMT
I wonder if that's the same grumpy man where Vera won't go in nowadays. We can do without Grumpy!
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Post by dennisn on Sept 13, 2016 17:37:05 GMT
Tuesday 13th September. You must be getting bored of this early to rise and go swimming stuff. So suffice it today to say it was even better again. The black swan which was missing yesterday came back today, only it had been doing Danny Kaye's song thing - There once was an ugly duckling, with feathers all stubby and black ...(forget the next line) and all of the birds said Quack, get out of town, Quack, quack get out, quack quack get out, quack quack get out of town. Tee dumpy dumpty, dumpty dah. ..... You're a swan! And so there were five today, marching in line down across the beach into the sea, all white and triumphant from having done the discrimination thing! Today we did intrepid. Bus to Koukounaries, then the fast water boat to town as a new experience. The sign said journey time 15 minutes and I thought "Oh yeah, that's quicker than the bus and this is just a boat!" Anyway, the boy helped us in, then when we sat together at one side, moved Vera across to the other side - "to balance the boat". What? Is it that unsteady? So off we went. And beggar me, the driver shoved it into sixth gear and we shot off like a rocket. Fast boat is something of a misnomer - it's a VERY fast boat and it smashes into the smallest head waves louder than a really hard slammed door. Photography was required, but Vera's camera battery ran dry and I don't know if my iPhone did any good, we were bouncing so much. I worried not so much about losing it overboard as simply dropping it smash on the deck! Ratatouille tonight for moussaka and beef stiffado, both excellent. Tzatziki, water and beer, E27.50. We always complement the chef as we leave here, because every morning on our way back from the swim, he's there with his staff doing prep and gives us a wave - must have one heck of a long day.
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Post by kelso on Sept 13, 2016 18:15:29 GMT
Good to hear about the boat Dennis. When I first read about the fifteen minute journey, like you, I thought aye, that'll be right, but now you have confirmed it. What was the fare?
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Post by dennisn on Sept 14, 2016 4:12:49 GMT
Five euros each, a complete bargain and I bet it beats a kamikazi taxi too. (Compare with jules GoPro video earlier this year - they didn't hang about, but took 20 minutes via the airport).
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Post by cariad23 on Sept 14, 2016 5:25:59 GMT
Loving your posts Dennis, and love your mr grumpy tee shirt must get one for my husband.! That boat looks great worth goin on just for the ride, you must get one to go with your villa when you get 6 numbers !
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Post by dennisn on Sept 14, 2016 7:04:11 GMT
Loving your posts Dennis, and love your mr grumpy tee shirt must get one for my husband.! That boat looks great worth goin on just for the ride, you must get one to go with your villa when you get 6 numbers ! I've had that t-shirt ever since I became grumpy. I don't think they are available any more. Funny you should mention the numbers - we've won three times since we got here. That's £999,969.10 closer to our first million. PS. Get him a Google one, that seems to go down well too.
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annette1962
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Post by annette1962 on Sept 14, 2016 7:57:02 GMT
I wonder if that's the same grumpy man where Vera won't go in nowadays. We can do without Grumpy! Lovely picture both looking really well 😀
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Post by dennisn on Sept 14, 2016 17:48:33 GMT
Nothing special to report today - sea swim, gyros, Bourtzi. Our meal tonight was at Varelli, gorgeous tzatziki again, meat mixed grill for two, water and beer, €39.
NOW PAY ATTENTION EVERYBODY.
Tomorrow we are on the Skopelos, Alonissos boat trip, so I shall be waving again to the webcam on Skopelos and this time somebody had better see me. Some time between 10am and 12 noon YOUR time, I shall do the waving thing next to that shed building by the entrance to the car park and ferry terminal. There are two webcams, one of which is live, realtime video and you'd better be looking at one of them. There is a prize for the first fifteen people to report seeing me (proof required is colour of t-shirt).
See you there.
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Post by cariad23 on Sept 15, 2016 4:25:40 GMT
i,m at work until 12am ! i suppose i can keep my phone in the desk drawer and keep taking a peek, or like the youngsters in the office constantly dissapear to the ladies to update their facebook. youve missed some cracking weather here dennis been very hot since you left if you live in the right part of england. (floods in manchester,raining in wales other day). We had brillant weekend away in essex baking hot .But no warm sea like skiathos. my guess would be red tee shirt to stand out, a little tap dance would be good !! Enjoy
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