Sunday 3rd & Monday 4th October
Two days of torrential rain; four days out on the boat with Linda & Ian (some torrential rain continuing); two days of end-of-season band night hangovers; one day helping Rob scrub out his apartment ... and now we're ready to start the next phase: building the shower-shed.
After dropping Linda & Ian at the airport on Sunday we thought we'd try Ag. Nikolaos for straw on the way back. We'd been told to ask in the shop, so we pulled up in the Plateia and having bought some potatoes, asked if the shop lady knew of anyone selling straw. She shouted at her son to go to the Kafenion to look for someone called Christos, he refused, she shouted some more, then went herself (it was two shops along). Christos wasn't there, but a taxi was just pulling up, so she shouted to him, he got back in the car, telling us to follow and drove into the village hinterland, where he shouted to someone called Nikos. This one talked normally, and said, yes he had straw, how much would we like? We arranged to call back on Monday (due to our Saturday night hangovers and wanting to veg out on the sofa rather than drive back to Nidri and come back in the van).
So we cleaned out the van, and on Monday afternoon drove to Ag. Nik and loaded eight bales of straw into the van - just about. Luckily we had a perfect length of thin rope to lash the bales in, as the door wouldn't close. The rope comes about because we bought a length to use as controlling ropes (known to the nautical as 'sheets') for our borrowed cruising chute on the yacht, but they weren't long enough; so we have these spare 'short chute sheets' ready for emergencies.
Experienced a small frisson of excitement on the drive home - our first straw bales! Quite momentous, really.
Drove up to the land, unloaded the bales onto a pallet, lashed a tarpaulin over them and went home for supper. Forgot my camera, unfortunately. Wood and blocks tomorrow.
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