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Post by *Di* on Jun 25, 2014 21:46:58 GMT
Its almost across road from ratatouille just higher up, good reviews on TA my lamb chops were cremated but most of all the service was dire 5 couples had to beg for either more drinks, the bill and we had to beg for our 14 euros change. We were all joking we should have brought camp beds. Sorry but never again Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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Post by *Di* on Jun 26, 2014 6:02:55 GMT
So sorry bad spelling *kalivi*
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Post by dennisn on Jun 26, 2014 7:58:36 GMT
Fear not - I got my time down to about three minutes this morning. Vera wouldn't have had time to swim to the end of the beds. And like I said, I fully expect to get it down to zero by this time next week.
Mama Mia tonight. Yee...haaaa!
PS my numbers didn't come up on the lottery last night AGAIN. Grrrrrrr!
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Post by *Di* on Jun 26, 2014 20:25:49 GMT
Unbearably warm today/tonight. Had another great meal at Ratatouille... Booked in for Monday night to be sure of table as we have been lucky so far. Hiring a bike for next three days so hoping to explore bit more Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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Post by dennisn on Jun 27, 2014 8:05:59 GMT
Huh, I just knew Di was taking steps to avoid me.
Anyway it's clouded over this morning, there wasn't even a glimpse of the sun for our early swim in the sea. However, my fans will rejoice with me that I got straight in today - I claimed to have beaten Vera, but she says she ducked down before I did. The sun is forcing itself through thin clouds just now and an enormous patch of clear sky is moving this way. I understand the temperature yesterday reached 34 degrees (why haven't I got one of those degrees symbols on my iPad?).
Mama Mia last night was tremendous, with only one slight downer, we were close to the world's heaviest pair of chain smokers and the cinema was too full to even think of moving. We just had to gasp and splutter and bear it.
The bus back to Troulos wasn't just packed, it was bursting at the seams. We seem to remember that last year they wouldn't allow standing passengers, whereas this year it seems there is a bonus system in operation for who can get most on his bus. The other day when we went into town, I started the journey standing in the well of the rear entrance!
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Post by kelso on Jun 27, 2014 11:19:57 GMT
Ah Dennis, you obviously never experienced the hey day of the buses. I remember one elderly conductor who used to push people onto the bus and then he would climb over the seats to get the fares, or get people to pass them down. The atmosphere was great and I managed to form quite a few intimate relationships that way! Some of them still write! Sorry to hear about the smokers spoiling things for you last night. Maybe take some scuba diving gear if you decide to go back. Eh? i'm sure that Scottydi is not avoiding you. Scrub that comment - I'm not sure after all! Have a great time. Off to cut the pesky grass now for the next door neighbours who are basking in Turkey. Bob
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Post by kelso on Jun 27, 2014 11:25:06 GMT
Ah Scottydi, the age old question. Do you go back to a restaurant you've enjoyed, or explore the hundreds of others??? I hope you enjoy your exploring and take care on the bike! Bob
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Post by dennisn on Jun 27, 2014 14:31:38 GMT
Ah, Kelso, I have many memories of bus heydays from other islands. Once, the driver and conductor at the bus station decided enough was enough and stopped us - with justification, there was no room at all. But I was outside and my then wife was inside. I would have cheerfully seen her disappear off down the road, but for one small detail - we were miles from our accommodation and she was carrying our funds. Fortunately my Greek was up to protesting that my wife was already on board (nowhere near the door) so they let me on (I was a slim ten and a half stones then from her "catering"!). On another occasion in Crete, the bus was so packed that I was jammed up against the driver, holding myself off the steering wheel by one hand on the dashboard and the other on his seat back. The windscreen was almost completely obliterated by the dangling pictures, icons and whatever ensured we actually got there and I was drunk off the driver's ouzo breath in no time at all. We were forced to stop at one point in the mountains whilst the road construction team bulldozed a new route round a bend. By by the way I just ipadded another two weeks at Villa Maria, September 11th 2015.
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Post by kelso on Jun 27, 2014 15:45:50 GMT
Ah, the things that memories are made of eh? Bob
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Post by *Di* on Jun 27, 2014 16:04:49 GMT
Had a great day exploring little beaches for great photos today, found the little monastry Panagias Kounistras.. Was good to have the breeze on us from the bike ride. Yes Kelso we have tried a few tavernas so far Ratatouille the best, not sure where we going tonight, see where our feet take us on this hot evening. Didnt sleep a wink last night, so humid but a late afternoon nap has refreshed us!
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Post by derbyshirelass on Jun 27, 2014 16:25:32 GMT
I do admire you Dennis with your early morning swims, a bit early for us. Shame about the smokers at Mama Mia, I didn't think smoking was allowed in there.
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Post by dennisn on Jun 27, 2014 17:27:52 GMT
I thought on arrival that the cinema might be no smoking - although I couldn't see any signs there wasn't a single astray in sight. But the no smoking regulations in Greece have long been a joke - in Corfu town some time when no smoking was brought out for tavernas, the one where we went for coffee had huge no smoking signs on every wall and Ashtrays on every table!
I'm not a fanatic, but as an ex-smoker I find it more distressing than many who have never smoked - I think I have far less lung capacity to deal with it.
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Post by dennisn on Jun 28, 2014 16:40:10 GMT
I reduced my time into the sea this morning to zero and got in before Vera at 7:40am. To be fair, she hung back and chatted to some people we see there every morning, and told them I was forging ahead to be first in, so maybe I might not have been if we'd had a side by side standing start.
I felt pretty sure Di would regret bikes today as the sky at 8am was solid thick cloud. If we'd been in England I wouldn't have ventured out without brolly, anorak, even wellies. We even had a few spots of rain whilst we swam. But later on, the sky cleared completely and we've had another glorious day.
It seems to us the place is busier than this time last year. We've only had one non-sardines bus ride, Salt and Pepper and Ratatouille were putting out reserved signs as we ate (I have to eat early, before 7) and as we leave the beach from our early swim, loads of people are making their way there. We met a man who said if you haven't got your sunbed before 10am, you're unlikely to get one!
Yesterday we we discovered the difference between eating here in Troulos and out in Skiathos town. Here we have paid from €22.50 up to €32.50. Our frugal meal by the old port yesterday cost €42.50. Needless to say we shall stick with Troulos!
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Post by *Di* on Jun 28, 2014 19:57:25 GMT
Had lovely day again out on the bike, visited the monastry high up in the hills, watched planes come and go from way up high then one leave which almost blew me into the sea at the end of the runway. Grabbed a quick gyro at No name in town then spent a lovely hour swimming and drying off at lovely Kolios beach. Fantastic evening meal tonight at Villa Rosa just a stroll from our studios finished yet again by wine in the bar at Hotel Morfia behind Ratatouille.. Lovely day Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Post by dennisn on Jun 29, 2014 8:47:49 GMT
This morning, to the huge delight of my fans, I was first in the sea at 7:30am. OK, so I had to do a rather unseemly rush to beat Vera - two septuagenarians running into the sea like plonkers! But nobody saw us. The Troulos beach was completely deserted and stayed that way until after we left at 8:30. Strange, usually there are quite a few early arrivals setting out their beds, but not a soul today. There WERE quite a number of towel occupied beds in front of Troulos Bay Hotel, but either they'd been there all night or we had missed the early rising grabbers. And there was only a single solitary fluorescent jogger, in truth a fluorescent walker, but still sweating proudly.
This morning the sea was like a mirror, millpond flat calm. And so we were treated for the first time by the little fishes in shoals skipping out of the water to avoid whatever was chasing them. It's one of life's tapestries I suppose, a very big shoal of things about the size of anchovies, desperately skipping across the water surface to escape.. Vera thought it was sad, but like the restaurant man said, that's life, same as when last week we saw a flock of seagulls diving to get them. You only get it when there's a flat calm sea.
We both had kalamari in Salt and Pepper last night. The only other item was my pineapple juice as Vera only drinks water, which is complimentary there, as are the three hot bread rolls and butter varieties. Total cost €22.50, no way are we eating in town again, except for the gyros.
So Di didn't get rained on and went doing the tourist attraction of watching the planes take off and getting sandblasted by the jet stream. I don't want to ruin my hairstyle like that! We have a jeep booked for Tuesday, I am no longer a fan of pedals.
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