Saturday 5 June 2010

Sima's visit

Sima arrived on Tuesday morning her flight was early so we were late to pick her up and then there she was looking like a supermodel as only she could after no sleep, a trip to the aiport, a long flight and a 2 hour time difference.

We had a brilliant week being tourists and went all over the island to the beaches, the lake, where we got married and the lighthouse in Argostoli we had wedding pictures taken at.



Whilst she was here we had 2 exciting (for us) events...

Our cat Sukie turned up one morning covered in curry powder she was bright orange from her head all down her front to her paw. She's so greedy we think she either was in the rubbish bins eating through bin bags and a curry exploded all over her or someone has thrown the powder at her to stop her coming into their house maybe. She spent hours trying to lick the curry off her fur and then the next day came over with it completely gone.



So now our house smelt of curry powder we decided to make one and Sima taught me how. She made the nicest curry we ever had and we found all the ingredients at our local supermarket.

Our new washing machine was finally delivered and we only had to wait in for about 6 hours for it. Finally heard the delivery van coming down the track.. then heard a crash.. the van managed to sort of half flip itself over on the track leading to our house. Then a tow truck had to come and drag it out. Then finally the new washing machine was here! Then the nice but stressed delivery man said he had forgotten his tools and that the drum of the washing machine was bolted in and has to be undone with a spanner (which we didn't bring with us amazingly) so we now have a brand new washing machine we can't use.

Roll on another week and we still have a brand new washing machine we cannot use!

Sima - we miss you x

Life from a Greek Island - Earthquakes, Snakes and Floods

We had our first and hopefully last earthquake in the first week of May. It measured 3.4 which isn't much apparently but it still felt like somone picked up our house and shook it backwards and forwards a bit. Luckily we were sitting on the sofa watching the 9 o clock film in english so we didn't fall over. They predict more for the summer so hopefully they won't get any bigger.
Mat ran over a snake - twice! It was lying in the road and he did think it was a tree branch but he still managed to run it over with the front and back wheels of the car. It's well and truly dead now - so one less venemous adder on the island.
So the sun is reaching about 34 on the hottest days here but we have also had some huge storms. It rains differently to the UK the raindrops are huge and the air is still warm, all the animals go mad beforehand - sheep, goats, chickens, dogs and cats all around. The track next to our house floods which looks something like this ..



imagine walking that uphill! I lost my only pair of shoes that I brought with me to it - they very sadly drowned!
We discovered 3 kittens living in a hedge at the side of the house in our garden where we sunbathe. We kept hearing noises and thought it was a bird/snake/lizard but when I looked there were 3 little faces looking back at me. Their mum Sukie started making friends with us and then her husband Rocky and boyfriend Sami turned up too. So we now occasionally have 6 cats with us usually for breakfast and dinner. The kittens are Cleo (short for Cleopatra she has eyeliner on an eye, Dio (greek for two has two spots on his back) and Oscar (who sima originally named rainbow and then we found out he is a boy). They are a lot of fun but get a bit demanding everytime you open the fridge.