943 – Saturday 30th December 2017: Kalo Nero
On leaving the Springs of Kaifa, we noted a pick up with 3 folks in stopped outside the Springs building and climbed over the rather spiky gate! One man of vintage years could have spiked his crown jewels (ouch!) but managed ok….. well, I thought – maintenance/cleaning workers? Nope – they went around the side and stripped off – to swimming costumes – to take the waters!!! Had we known earlier, we could have had ’Spring showers’ au naturelle’.
Mega New Year food shopping…….reached our beachside pitch at Kalo Nero – set up shop and perambulated along the seafront. Voices beside us – “Are you the Brits in the motorhome?” (Well, I suppose I’m an adoptive Brit? – and Oscar is a Brummie Welshie…). It was Bernadette and Rod – 10-year residents in the area – and part time motorhomers….. They know ‘Boxerman’/Dave and San and Phil whom we will meet soon at Elea.
View from our window at Springs of Kaiafa.
That’s us excused swimming then!
Walk along Kalo Nero.
Beach front pitch at Kalo Nero.
944 – Sunday 31st December 2017: Happy New Elyea
Morning boulevarding and Jezzied on down to Elea – to the best ‘wilding’ spot we’ve seen, ever possibly. Huge wide open spaces and long beachfront stretching for kilometres. Friendly wild dogs – looked after by a dog sanctuary, thank goodness. Many are shipped to Germany for adoption. Dave, San and Phil came to our New Year supper – we saw the New Year in alone after the others had departed for their beds. A lovely intro to 2018 – Happy ’18 to all our friends and families everywhere!!! (K paddled – not addled – and Oscar barked into 2018…).
K: Actually, I went paddling, much to Oscar’s dismay … That’ll be the closest I get to the water for a few months!
945 – Monday 1st January 2018: New Year’s Day Tasting Menu
This wilding place has water points that you can connect a hose to. So we laundered and showered (in Jez) by a water point and then moved to firm ground for our pitch of now, several nights.
Katherine (Masterchef) provided an…..
International Food and Wine Tasting Menu
Foie gras (France) with pomegranate infused onion marmalade (Bosnia and Herzegovina) with salad and toasted brioche. Marsala from Italy.
Scallops oven baked with butter and mild curry (Guernsey, hand dived by Chris and Chloe). Mantineia, a dry white from Greece.
Duck Gessiers (Gizzards to you and me from France) with an aubergine, red pepper and onion salad. Gustav Clauss dry red from Greece.
Cheeses (Greece)
946 – Tuesday 2nd January: Easy Does It!
In this fabulous spot, the sand attaches to everywhere in the van so a constant battle to keep him clean – Oscar contributes – not to the cleaning – but to the sand disposal by bringing in more of the gritty stuff. But, it’s well worth the location.
A few mending jobs such as sticking hooks up. A steady flow of people to chat to … Dave and San dog walking in for coffee, Frenchman who stopped work age 47, nice Burster but knackered fridge – new at €2000! Bernadette and Rod stopped by for vino – Rod left his jacket but we’ll see them tomorrow…. Quite heavy rain overnight.
944 – Wednesday 3rd January: Another Hair Chop
Off to Kyparissia for a K coiffure….a mere ‘snip’ at €30. Coffee with Bernadette and Rod – he repossessed his jacket. Harbour walk and lunch – Oscar was allowed in (only small dogs) – well he’s small/medium……
Back to the same splendid beachside pitch to chill…….
Oscar’s Blog
They tell me we’re still in Greece – in Pollyknees which is an island and was part of the mainland. But someone cut a currant canal and spent time raisin it – do yiz get it? Currants and raisins? It’s the way I tell ‘em! That was Frank Carson, by the way… Well my currant owners (but I will keep them) have taken me from post to pillar, mostly ‘wilding’ and some sampkites – but – they have found me the most amazing wilding place – several chronometers long – beachside – and NO NEED FOR A LEAD – whoopee!!! Loads of wild dogs but friendly – we met humanoids too – Dave and San and Phil and a French couple to whom I could say ‘Bon jewel, mes ami…”. No slouch me in the old ‘linguafranglais’ deportment…… and I can walk well too…
Oh, and K had a haircut……
“What is this life if full of hair
we have no time to chop in chair
no time to sit beneath the drier
and share a coffee with the sheep”
Ok, it went a bit awol at the end – but you cannot beat a bit of poultery!
Great balls of super glue … good for chewing …. my owners checked me out and I’m still In Tack.
Oscar – leadless – not legless…
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A grand read indeed. Most enjoyable guys
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Glad you enjoy although we blog for us (poor memories) and my parents mostly. Are you travelling?
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Lovely xxxxxx
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