Job team arrives.

It was Easter Monday – well UK Easter Monday as Greek Easter Monday was the following week. No idea why. The job team arrived on the evening flight from Manchester so we drove down to pick them up via the supermarket in order to stock up on supplies. The next day was a super day with plenty of sun and not too hot so we managed to get well on with the start of the new roof. By Friday the roof apart from a couple of roof panels was complete and my dad had started knocking down the apotheki doorway. So far so good, not quite. Easter in Greece is far bigger than Christmas and as a result Greece shuts down for 3 days to mark the occaision. This is fine if you haven’t run out of sand and cement!! So we were out of work for 3 days which didn’t go down well with the team.


On Greek Easter Saturday we went down to Corfu town to see the famous pot smashing in the Liston square. We got down there for 10ish and wandered steadily up to the Liston. At bang on 11 o’clock all hell breaks loose and terracota pots of all shapes and sizes are hurled from all the balcony windows as high as 6 storeys. Quite a spectacle with no cops, no barriers, no warning signs and nobody gets hurt!! Well worth the visit. Sadly since the first day of sunshine on the Tuesday the weather has not been so good, a mixed bag of cloud and showers.

We all managed a stroll over the weekend by San Stefanos on the east and it stayed dry so it wasn’t too bad. At the crack of dawn on Tuesday morning I was down at the builders yard filling the car with sand and cement so we could proceed with the apotheki door. All was well again and we managed to get the building work finished and the new door put together before the team departed on the Friday eve. All that was left was to paint the new door and hang it, which we did and it looks so much better.

With the team now gone and it’s Saturday morning and the sun was shining again and continued to do so right up ‘til we left to fly to the UK 2 weeks later.