I am so very very glad we do not have any scales in our household - because I know that I would not be impressed if I were to stand on any - continuous eating does nothing for the waistline and we have a lunch to go to today - I do hate saying goodbye to visitors but it will be good to get back to some sort of normality - that isn't going to happen for another week though as John's mum and stepdad have seven more days left of their holiday. That being the case I made a pact with myself this morning to get up and go for a power walk before my day starts in earnest. Today is day one - how beautiful the neighbourhood looks when the sun has not long risen - no photographs today as the camera would only have been a distraction.
Today is my sister's 60th birthday I mention it briefly because I fully understand that this year her birthday comes with no desire for celebration. Her preference has been to set up a Just Giving page in memory of her wonderful husband Richard. We have all contributed but still wished to mark the occasion with a small keepsake by way of a bead for her Pandora bracelet. The Buddha from Mum and Dad will make Kaye smile as there has been a Buddha-gate in her family for years and the watering can from John and I will remind her of the beautiful garden she and Richard planned together. Hopefully she will one day look back at all the beads on the bracelet and recall their significance as they make up the story of her life.
Today being the first Wednesday of the month is ladies lunch day and Mum, Mother-in-law, Neighbour Pam and I were going whilst the men were booked in at Finnikas. These lunches are normally long and leisurely affairs so we had planned nothing else for the day except we were hopeful that Ziad would be coming to do something about the horrendous patchwork of walls you walk past to get to our gate.
Unfortunately the wall is going to have to wait another day - but that is fine as I know John will prefer to be around to see what is happening and we have lived with it for years anyway so a couple more days will not make any difference.
John is very impressed by Hadge's motorised scooter which they have hired from C & A Apartments - he decided he needed to give it a teeny weeny test drive of about 5 metres and then declared it was exactly what he needed for going down into the village and back particularly as it has a handy little basket on the front! So Nitsa if you find it has gone missing you know where to look for it first!!
The lunch experience was two ends of the spectrum - the men having a wonderful time in the courtyard at Marina's (Finnikas') and for the women a rather disastrous meal which was really unfortunate. It all started well with the Palates Hotel looking lovely and the restaurant laid up in readiness for the 20 ladies that were attending.
Sadly it all went downhill from there - apparently they had a new oven and the chicken that was produced looked like it had been in there for days it was so rock hard - the 'fantastic' pudding to make up for the inedible main course was jelly and blancmange served on a saucer with a teaspoon and then randomly some cheese and ham appeared. Sylvia was devastated. It is a shame because we have eaten her food on numerous occasions at Stathmos the coffee shop and it has been good but for some reason up at the hotel it all goes pear-shaped. Bambos came to try and smooth the waters and offered us a souvla meal at Stathmos in a couple of weeks' time to make up for the debacle!
We failed to get the early night we had planned after dropping Janet and Hadge back reasonably early as we felt we should catch up with our neighbours George and Pam because before we know it their holiday will be over and we will have missed them.
Today being the first Wednesday of the month is ladies lunch day and Mum, Mother-in-law, Neighbour Pam and I were going whilst the men were booked in at Finnikas. These lunches are normally long and leisurely affairs so we had planned nothing else for the day except we were hopeful that Ziad would be coming to do something about the horrendous patchwork of walls you walk past to get to our gate.
Unfortunately the wall is going to have to wait another day - but that is fine as I know John will prefer to be around to see what is happening and we have lived with it for years anyway so a couple more days will not make any difference.
John is very impressed by Hadge's motorised scooter which they have hired from C & A Apartments - he decided he needed to give it a teeny weeny test drive of about 5 metres and then declared it was exactly what he needed for going down into the village and back particularly as it has a handy little basket on the front! So Nitsa if you find it has gone missing you know where to look for it first!!
The lunch experience was two ends of the spectrum - the men having a wonderful time in the courtyard at Marina's (Finnikas') and for the women a rather disastrous meal which was really unfortunate. It all started well with the Palates Hotel looking lovely and the restaurant laid up in readiness for the 20 ladies that were attending.
Sadly it all went downhill from there - apparently they had a new oven and the chicken that was produced looked like it had been in there for days it was so rock hard - the 'fantastic' pudding to make up for the inedible main course was jelly and blancmange served on a saucer with a teaspoon and then randomly some cheese and ham appeared. Sylvia was devastated. It is a shame because we have eaten her food on numerous occasions at Stathmos the coffee shop and it has been good but for some reason up at the hotel it all goes pear-shaped. Bambos came to try and smooth the waters and offered us a souvla meal at Stathmos in a couple of weeks' time to make up for the debacle!
We failed to get the early night we had planned after dropping Janet and Hadge back reasonably early as we felt we should catch up with our neighbours George and Pam because before we know it their holiday will be over and we will have missed them.
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