Sunday 13 February 2011
Nothing more until the weekend, except a trip to Lefkas town to see if the telephone people will supply a land line. The girl in the OTE shop (Greece's BT) was very helpful and took details about changing our address - she wanted a date for this, so we plumped for April 1st - an auspicious date, and I hope we'll be ready for it. I gave her a map of the location, and they must have found it because I got a phone call the next day.
'Sarra Maray? You want telephone from OTE?'
- 'Yes please'
'You have electric'
- 'Um, no'
'Telephone no possible, sorry'
- 'Oh'
'You want internet or telephone?'
- 'Internet, please'
'Ok, we make budget, you want to go ahead?'
- 'Can I decide when you've made the budget?'
'OK, I ring back'
While we were there we also took Constantine the money, which had eventually arrived from the UK, to process the plans, and called in on Dieter to see if our equipment had arrived.
Saturdays are only half days, as pantomime rehearsals start at 2pm, so we took the opportunity to go into Lefkas town again in the morning and buy the solar water heater and the rainwater storage drum. We need the water drum in order to get the height of the platform to hold the water heater, as they will be stacked one above the other on the east side, with the solar heater facing south. Both these will be delivered next week.
Late on Saturday night, after a particularly scarey panto rehearsal (not long now - first night is 22 Feb), Dieter delivered the remaining two solar panels. We had already picked up the inverter, regulator, wires and connectors, so we were ready to go.
So on Sunday Dave started fitting brackets to the panels and connectors to the wires. I took a few location shots around the site, as I haven't done so for a while, and then got on with tidying up. We've decided to spend our first night on the land, and thought that Valentine's Day would be an easy anniversary to remember. We'll only be camping out - we still have only a standpipe of cold water and no power, but it's a silly romantic thing to do, so we'll do it. The shed looks vast in these photos - it's deceptive: when it's tidy there's some space, but not as much as it looks.
Nothing more until the weekend, except a trip to Lefkas town to see if the telephone people will supply a land line. The girl in the OTE shop (Greece's BT) was very helpful and took details about changing our address - she wanted a date for this, so we plumped for April 1st - an auspicious date, and I hope we'll be ready for it. I gave her a map of the location, and they must have found it because I got a phone call the next day.
'Sarra Maray? You want telephone from OTE?'
- 'Yes please'
'You have electric'
- 'Um, no'
'Telephone no possible, sorry'
- 'Oh'
'You want internet or telephone?'
- 'Internet, please'
'Ok, we make budget, you want to go ahead?'
- 'Can I decide when you've made the budget?'
'OK, I ring back'
While we were there we also took Constantine the money, which had eventually arrived from the UK, to process the plans, and called in on Dieter to see if our equipment had arrived.Saturdays are only half days, as pantomime rehearsals start at 2pm, so we took the opportunity to go into Lefkas town again in the morning and buy the solar water heater and the rainwater storage drum. We need the water drum in order to get the height of the platform to hold the water heater, as they will be stacked one above the other on the east side, with the solar heater facing south. Both these will be delivered next week.
Late on Saturday night, after a particularly scarey panto rehearsal (not long now - first night is 22 Feb), Dieter delivered the remaining two solar panels. We had already picked up the inverter, regulator, wires and connectors, so we were ready to go. 
So on Sunday Dave started fitting brackets to the panels and connectors to the wires. I took a few location shots around the site, as I haven't done so for a while, and then got on with tidying up. We've decided to spend our first night on the land, and thought that Valentine's Day would be an easy anniversary to remember. We'll only be camping out - we still have only a standpipe of cold water and no power, but it's a silly romantic thing to do, so we'll do it. The shed looks vast in these photos - it's deceptive: when it's tidy there's some space, but not as much as it looks.
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