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Parking ticket

Oops, managed to get a parking ticket this morning. It’s unbelievable what you can get away with here without recourse. Not wearing crash helmet, driving the wrong way down a one way street, wild camping etc. all illegal but the police turn a blind eye most of the time. I parked where I normally park and where the locals often park. I should have noticed that I was on my own this morning! When I got back I ada ticket. To be fair I was parked under a (very faded) clearway sign. €80, €40 if i pay within 10 days. Lesson learned. image

Sail repairs

Unfortunately Ian put his knee through his Hellcat 6.2 yesterday (such a good sail too) so today we took it into Lefkada for repairs. Mark who actually fixes the sails is a lovely bloke and does a great job mending sails, many of the windsurf schools use him, but one of his colleagues is a strange chap. He must have been on some sort of aggressive customer service course as I have now had a couple of incidents with him.

The company have a head office (where you take the sails) and a sail loft where Mark works which is a couple of miles before their office. I thought it would be nice to say hello to Mark, introduce Ian to him and show him where the loft is. Jolly Joe (not his real name), was there delivering sails for repair and greeted us with “What are you doing here? You are not allowed here (it was a public highway), this is my private place and I don’t like anyone coming here” (sorry Mark you’re not allowed any friends). When he had finished his warm welcome I explained our purpose and told him we were indeed on our way the the head office to drop off the sail but even Jolly Joe could see the sense of leaving the sail at the loft and save him a of following us to collect the sail from the office and then bring it back out to the loft.

While in Lefkada Ian took me to an ironmongers I hadn’t been to before (now my new favourite shop). Sells everything you could wish for and passes the test of being able to buy just the one screw if you so wish. Their range was not just extensive with items that were beautifully made and plated in chrome (which Ian nor I recognised) but was timeless. They had the very latest from the very oldest technologies. A great shop and worth a visit.

Panarama with Clive and Jean

Panarama cats asleep
Panarama cats asleep

The Panarama restaurant is on the west coast looking out across the Aegean Sea, it’s a great location for eating a meal and watching the sun setting so when Clive and Jean invited us to join them (they have a car here) we didn’t hesitate. Unfortunately the sky was hazy and the sunset had to be imagined but the food was plentiful and delicious. On recommendation Lesley started with octopus in vinegar followed by a very meaty sea bream while I had milk cheese pie and lamb chops. As usual they brought out some extras at the end of the meal which today happened to be a googolplex of calories worth of baklava, which I seemed to eat the most of. Must have a run in the morning.

Lesley fell in love with the restaurant’s cats and so I have to include a photo.

Metz

Arrived about 16:00 after about 260 miles. Filled up with diesel in Luxembourg at the cost of €1.18 per litre. Weathering better so we went for a run. Metz is a very pretty town so going to explore the restaurants