10/5 The Greek Isles

Thursday 10 Mykonos

Our first Greek island this year. We cruised in during the stretch class to a thinly-populated part of the island. Brekky, morning trivia (won by ten points!!) and then we wandered out into the fierce wind to wait for the public bus rather than pay 3 times as much for the shuttle service. The town of Mykonos was quite delightful – the classic whitewashed buildings with churches scattered liberally in between, the vivid blue of the roofs echoing the crystal clear waters. Mykonos is known for its windmills – there were 5 on the seafront although they had no fabric in their vanes. So fierce was the wind that they would otherwise have been shredded or the wheels would have flown off their mountings.

We found an internet place and discovered that our home insurance has lapsed – we have the feeling that the same happened last year. Then we FINALLY got an email from the cretins at Air Asia – although not in response to our repeated emails and chat enquiries with their staff – this was just them finally getting round to addressing the subject. The default will be that they will put us on Air Malaysia on the same date. We haven’t checked to see how that impacts our connection through to Perth. We would be half inclined to delay by a few days to give us the opportunity to drop in at the Somme battlefields near Paris to have a look at the Aussie and Sethefrican memorials at Delville Wood and Villers-Bretencourt anti-respectively. This if they would delay the connecting flight as well. Last night we watched the new film depicting Australian soldiers setting off a HUGE mine underneath the German lines on day 1 of the Somme offensive.

J has taken a headache to bed after lunch – you will be proud to hear that we didn’t attend 3 trivia sessions today.  We finally got to sit with the youngsters in the afternoon trivia and finished several points off the pace. We chose simple options for dinner and had another early night, preparing for tomorrow.