Off again



Ferry down Adriatic

 We are back on line again and in touch with the world!! Yes yes I know I said I would do more to keep up to date with our ramblings and there has been nothing since March. I humbly apologise but there was good reason, it was all to do with wireless broadband contracts and the short time we were in Corfu but I’m sure you’re not interested in all that anyway.


It’s 16th May, we’ve been back in the UK just over a week and we are gearing up for the off again very soon. Never mind that what’s been going on I hear you ask?

We left the UK on 16th March after our stay with Marian on the south coast and had a super drive across Europe with a couple of stops. One at Leige in Belgium at an F1 hotel and the other at a hotel we usein Altenstadt, Germany. The weather was great, the Alps were superb and all was going well. We arrived in Venice intent on going to a campsite we kow to get a cabin for the night. We checked on their website before we left home and it said ‘open all year.’ In my understanding that means open all the time. No, it was closed so we had to go to plan B which we didn’t have. In short we drove around looking for an open campsite to no avail. We ended up shelling out mega Euros for a hotel near Marco Polo airport. Oh well, these things happen as they say.

Next day, checked in for the ferry and got a good spot in the reclining eat room again. Steady cruise down the Adriatic to Igoumenitsa on the mainland as the Venice ferries have stopped docking in Corfu through the winter months. We arrived at Igoumenitsa to an unusually quiet port. Super, the Greek ferry operators were on strike over the austerity issues. So we were stuck on mainland Greece. After a call to a Greek friend in Corfu we found out the strike could be over that day or go on for another 48 hours. The outcome was due at 6pm that day. The upshot of which was the strike was over and services were set to resume.

Services did resume, the following day! We spent the night sleeping upright in the car, lovely…………At 0600hrs I had to wrestle my way through a mass of angry Greeks to to get a ticket for this first ferry. As you can imagine after a two day strike there would be a few folks knocking about, not a pleasant situation. We did manage to get on the first ferry which was bursting at the sides and finally docked at Corfu at 0815hrs.

It was a quick shop at LIDL on the way and we were back home for 0930 and asleep by 10 o’clock.

All was well with the house, the weather was nice and it was god to be back. We now have two weeks to get sorted and ready for the arrival of the workforce – my dad and Lynns brother – on Easter Monday.