Only two more days in Greece.

Wednesday 9th July.

We are parked up tonight on the harbour at Katakolo. What is it with us and harbours/ports? Well, I suppose if you follow the coastline that's where we're gonna end up eh? This is a big port, they are expecting the cruise ships to dock tomorrow and there are about 30 or 40 coaches parked up ready to take the occupants to Olympia and further afield. The area of the port recommended to us is a couple of hundred metres away but it is now covered with NO MOTORHOME signs so we're in the public car park and the locals tell us it'll be fine for us to park overnight where we are. Finding WiFi was a little more difficult, I had to go to two bars and buy a beer to get their passwords before I found one that had a good enough signal to watch the second semi-final tonight. Mission accomplished although I doubt tonight's game will be as entertaining or surprising as last night's.

Unlike last night's little harbour and one inexpensive taverna this town has a line of expensive looking restaurants lining the quayside so I don't think we will be patronising them this evening. We bought a massive swordfish steak from a fishmongers in Pylos two days ago which he cut off a fish which was about a metre long. We froze it and have defrosted it this afternoon so that's tonight's dinner sorted with a nice tomato salad and Tzatziki (home made, of course).

On Friday we catch the ferry to Venice so we will stop at a campsite tomorrow to do the usual domestic chores and then drive up to Patras on Friday morning fully prepared for 36 hours on the Ionian and Adriatic seas. We'll miss Greece and will definitely come back again but either in Spring or Autumn. We've loved every minute of our time here but it has been a little too hot for us Brits over the last few weeks.

 

Some time later....... Extra time and penalties eh! It's murdering my sleep patterns. WiFi was rubbish so Phil sent me over to the bar to watch the match. Two and a half beers later and I'm back home at stupid o'clock. Neither side seemed to have any great ambition tonight and it was, possibly, the worst game I've watched in the entire World Cup. I'm glad Argentina went through though although they'll have to up their game to beat the German team in the final.

That's it, goodnight (Good morning actually)

Pat.

ps. The swordfish was delicious.

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