35'C and gently breezy

However we have seen some clouds. They were all over the Turkish mainland, around 12 miles away.

I was afraid that I wasn't going to take any pictures, but as it is, after the first couple of days I've taken plenty.

What did I say we'd done in the last post? We've snorkelled around Roman ruins, canoed in the sea over some quite respectable waves, visited other towns, seen amazing sights, driven up tiny alleyways AND met cars coming in the opposite direction! We've made new friends, cooked with HUGE amounts of garlic and speak more greek now than we did before we came. Chris "efcharisto's" at every opportunity.

Lesvos is like Greece was when we first visited, except the Greeks are a little wealthier maybe.

It still smells the same, only moreso here. If you know the smell of fenugreek then you have an idea of the kind of smell that pervades. They also take astonishingly little care about drains ocasionally, and while typing this, the most awful pong wafted through! In the evening there is the smell of cooling pine trees and meat cooking on taverna grills.

We've already decided that we'd like to come back here, and that there's enough left for a full fortnight holiday.

There's 2 nights left. At this time on Thursday we should be most of the way home, but I won't worry about that. Tomorrow for our last day we're off in a small party to visit the area where the hotel owner's wife grew up.

That'll do for now.