Never a dull moment / It's all Greek to me!

Hi everyone....
Well, we have now been in Corfu in the Ionian islands of Greece for nearly 3 weeks now, the land of taramosalata, ouzo and not being able to put your dunny paper down the toilet (not quite sure what that is about yet!).
The sun started to shine (in true Shirley Valentine fashion) the moment we arrived in Greece and has not stopped since apart from the occassional thunder storm. Thermals and ski jackets seems sooooo long ago and I am actually thinking of packing them up until we need them again.
We are getting around in swimmers and shorts and t-shirts all the time now (unfortunately so are a lot of very obese men in the marina. DT's certainly don't look good on some people!).
We are still in Gouvia marina waiting for my arm to heal. We had Anna, Craig's youngest, with us for a week as she waits for her registration to come through for work in England. We managed to get out and about for a few nights while she was here as we had an extra pair of hands and spent some lovely evenings on the island of Paxos (Lakka and Mongonissi) and had a lovely lunch time swim at Emerald Bay on Anti Paxos. Also had a night on the mainland at Platarias. We got charged 3 euros!! What a rip off! :-)) So much cheaper than Croatia.
We continue to meet lovely, special people. In Mongonissi we met a lovely family from Wales who were on one of the flotilla boats and have now met quite a few other Aussie and Scottish crews! So good to see the lion rampant flying on boats and Craig and I take turns at which one of our 'unofficial' flags gets put up first on our port flag halyard while we are at anchor.
We also continue to have the usual equipment break downs that happen on boats. We had problems with the holding tank, which refused to empty (don't laugh Stephen!!). We had to pump it out and Craig actually got in the water to clear the pipe which was fairly solid with crunchy stuff. Seems to be OK at the moment, however we are gathering all the info that we can to stop it happening again. Not a pleasant job! Poor Anna just missed out on a trip on another boat so gave us a hand to fix it. She was a real trooper!
Our outboard motor for the dinghy was also damaged during the storms off Albania which we discovered when we went to use it last week and it wouldn't turn off. Once again a trip to our favourite maintenance man has solved our problem and a new part has been ordered.
As the title of this blog suggests, we continue to have fun and games. The marina has been abuzz with activity over the last few days as there is some sort of yacht regatta happening soon. There is testosterone everywhere (and some people that you don't mind seeing in DT's!). There have been TV cameras up and down the pontoons almost constantly filming all the super yachts.
The other excitement was a fire on a boat 3 berths down from us last night. Craig had gone up town and I was on the boat alone when I smelled burning. I looked out to see smoke pouring out of a hatch and a couple of guys running around the boat. I tried to help where I could and loaned them a fire extinguisher, hoses etc. The boat on the other side pulled away from the pontoon and I was beginning to think that I should do the same. Craig was nowhere to be seen and then appeared sauntering up the pontoon. Three fire engines arrived and soon the fire was under control. I spoke to the poor owner this morning who told me that there had been more damage done by the water that was poured in (they had been at dinner when the fire started!) than by the fire itself, however he did appreciate that people were only trying to save his boat. I felt so sorry for them!!
Anyway, I am being hassled by Craig as usual. We are taking this window of opportunity to pop over to the West coast of Italy where we know some people near Salerno and have to leave soon to get the ferry to Bari where we will then hire a car and drive to the B & B. Shirley will be safe and sound in the marina here and we might as well do something while I am out of action. I will be in touch soon and hopefully will be able to get some pictures up. We will be back on board on the 20th of June and will then be heading south.

Take care everyone. Talk soon.
xx Lesley