Day 68 (Sunday)
After all the promises of miserable weather have come to
naught, today it finally arrived. We
were confined to barracks all day. We
had done all our washing yesterday so today it was all draped around the
cottage. Tracey spent the day making
leek and potato soup and having a go at some jam buns we had tried in Croatia.
In the evening the rain had finally gone so we went down to
the local taverna where we met a ‘new’ couple – Kevin and Joyce from Leeds who
have a house in the village and visit a few times a year. We talked about the track that we walk down
to go to Aghia Efimia, it goes alongside a dry river bed and we wanted to know
if there was ever a time when water runs along it. We also wanted to know why there was an
abandoned Italian army truck next to a giant pink teapot. The Italian truck was apparently used in the
Captainn Corelli film but the giant pink teapot wasn’t.
We are obviously integrating well into the village as we
were left holding the taverna owner’s baby while he and his wife cooked our
dinner.
Day 69 (Monday)
The rain stayed away overnight but at 8:00am it really
started to hammer down. Hail the size of
olives also joined in with the weather mix rain, thunder and lightning.
It did start to calm down a bit by midday so I went for a
little walk to survey any damage. I found
out the answer to yesterday’s question about the dry riverbed. A lot of the track had collapsed under the
weight of water and one of the roads into Makriotika was blocked by rubble
brought down from the mountains. A JCB
was already on the scene clearing a path so that cars could pass through.
Later, we went down to Aghia Efimia and discovered that we
got off fairly lightly. There is no river
mouth in the town so the water just pours through the streets leaving lots of
mud in its wake.
Italian Army Truck and a Giant Pink Teapot
Croatian Jam Buns
There was a road here once
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