The pool at night |
Ali, enjoying the 'first-night' Amstel (gearing up the liver for the next two weeks!) |
Ali's solution to not getting bitten by the mosquitos |
The pool (daytime version) |
The bathroom light after we almost burnt down the hotel on the first night ! (sorry Angelo) |
Gina - the Welsh lady |
Ali tries Ouzo ! |
Michelle, now keeps British Telecom in profit by phoning up Luke for hours on end ! |
How to catch Gina unawares with the camera ! |
Francis and Tudor try out some of the 'Andy Horwood crazy straws' (Bar staff were not pleased!) |
Bumped into Pat and Paul in the 'Piano Bar' |
The new girl (russian) that the owner got me to wind-up |
She seemed to like us though ! |
The 'Stone Forest' at Meteora and the 'Monastery of the Trinity' where 'For your Eyes Only' was filmed |
It was worth the four-hour drive for the scenery alone !!! |
Despite the vertigo, Ali managed to trek up to the monastery. |
The drops were sheer but the view fantastic |
The 'Convent of Santa Maria'??. We were going to visit but it was a tad busy....... |
Ali, showing off the skirt the monks forced her to wear to cover up her trousers. |
The 'Winch Room' (All the monasteries had winding gear to get supplies up to them) |
One Bucket on a steel cable with a fatal drop below ! |
Ali just takes a breather as we had to climb a couple of hundred steps to get here. |
More strange rocks |
The town with the best scenery in Greece ! |
Back to the pool....... |
The road into the village |
A view over the seafront |
Ali is a tad cross to see the camera again ! |
Ali becomes victim to one of Vasily's (Bill) jokes |
Paul, the man with the sunburned feet |
Bill takes the mick, as Paul and Marie share a Karaoke sonnet ! |
Pat, supplier of many cigarettes because I kept running out ! |
Ali forgets that the microphone has an 'off/on' switch ! |
Marie and Ali |
Ali & Bill |
Yogurt with Honey. Nice !! |
The Sunday evening jaunt to the 'Piano Bar' |
The Piano Bar |
One big long table - a leaving party for those leaving the next day. |
Michelle and her parents |
Mario and his other half (Mario used to cut my hair for 8 years at Quinto and Mario's, Bridge Street, High Wycombe) |
Nicky and Mike (who are also going to have huge phone-bills due to Luke phoning Michelle) |
Paul starts on the wine......... |
Memory-loss on the two partygoers on the left. Marie, Francis and a Sunderland fan whose name also eludes me ! |
.......Paul finishes the wine !!! |
The toast to a great holiday ! |
"see.... if I turn this key, she does this !! " |
Jan, the cruel owner of the Piano Bar, that threw Ali into the pool later that evening. |
..... Enough good food, now to party back at the hotel ! |
I can't remember your names so you'd best drop an Email ! .... |
The Bar - 'Large Portions' of alcohol |
Pat and Ali (sober ??? - I think not !!) |
Bill, once again, grabs Ali as she does the Karaoke ! |
.... and then I get given the microphone (sorry for the out-of-tune yowling !) |
Marie and Michelle and the other spice girl give it a go. |
"I can't sing that !!!", exclaims Lynn |
Marie teaches the younger guests how to do it (along with organising some EXCELLENT water games for the kids !!!) |
Marie and Ali just *love* Karaoke - or was it because they liked Bill ???!!!! |
It wasn't all sunshine, we had five thunderstorms while we were there ! |
Paul getting in yet another beer. The lady behind the bar was great for giving out a quarter of a bottle of Metaxa 7* as one measure ! <hic> |
Dave and his missus from the next balcony hold up the mobile flea-circus |
Lynn and her husband (I am terrible for names) + dog ! |
Paul turns away before Tudor hits him again ! |
Vasily's wife shows Pat and Paul where to go. |
Francis cruises round the tables looking for unguarded drinks ! |
Her dad keeps his safe up at the bar ! |
Ali and Paul look through the CD collection |
One guy who could sing very well indeed - guess what ?? - I don't know your name ! |
Ali and Dave at it with the Karaoke again ! |
Judging by the reaction - it was funny ! |
Nicky points the latest comedy out to Mike... |
.... and guess who it was ! ??? <g> |
Luke, trying to make Michelle jealous ! |
On the beach in Neapoli...and then..... twenty minutes later....... |
.... the worst rain that I have EVER seen ! |
Soon brightened up, so we drove round the Kassadria peninsular. |
Our Fiat Secento for the day (a sod to drive !!) |
The Pat and Paul gratuitous 'Balcony Shot' |
The pool again with Angelo and ANOther trying to clean the slippery algae off the poolside. |
Where we were. |
The front arch of the hotel |
In summary, a great holiday with only two occurences. Firstly, setting fire to the bathroom cabinet on the first night was a bit uncool. There was also the Sunday Night Karaoke that culminated in A and A Horwood ending up in the pool as subsequently being a tad poisoned (or was it the Ouzo ! ??). The 'song of the moment' must go to Texas and 'Summer Sun'. Many thanks to all those who we met (many of you are pictured here) and who made this a very nice, relaxing two weeks ! |
