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Kos Saturday 14^th August 2012

Where have 14 weeks gone since we were last in Kos meeting Adam & Kirsty and the grandchildren ?

It is a LOT busier this time around, the moorings beneath the castle, where we stayed last time, are now supervised by the nearby Marina and they are charging 50 Euro per night to tie up to the harbour wall – what a rip off !

So we are on the opposite side of the harbour basin where it is free apart from a nominal charge of a few Euros per night payable to the Port Authority.

There are always more boats looking to tie up in the early evening than spaces available so it is a bit of a bun fight – we make a point of arriving before mid day which seems to work well.

To add to the general chaos around 15 big wooden day cruisers leave the harbour quietly each morning full with passengers and arrive back early evening, motoring fast into the busy harbour with the partying passengers giving a display of singing, dancing and Mexican waves to loud music – very entertaining.

This side of the harbour, we are close to the beach so we have somewhere to swim and cool off, in May we spent our days around the pool at the children’s’ apartment.

We have also put up the big sunshade to keep the boat cooler and we are waiting for our next visitors to arrive tomorrow.

Sheena and Emily are joining us for their holidays – can’t wait !

This morning we were entertained by some budding artists with big smiles who were very bad but we couldn’t help laughing at their entrepreneurial spirit !