I was awake at 04:40 so I thought I may as well get up as the dogs were moving around. After I’d put on their collars, I could see Sascha hanging on the wire of her enclosure so I released the others and let her follow them out.
I spent a little time tripping over her in the dark as she is black and likes to get in between your feet in her hurry to get into everything. There was no problem with the other dogs as they just got on with their routine. She stuck with me and followed the herd.
I’d considered dropping Sascha back to the camping after one tour of the Promontory but she seems still to be going well so we carried on up the beach. I then considered dropping her back on our return from Plakaki but we continued on over the rocks and back as usual.
I left the two females out whilst I fed the cats and said goodbye to the couple in Z1 who were leaving for Gavdos. I then exercised my brain before taking the two females out once more. Sascha was not planning to be left out so around she went again making 6.5km. She didn’t appear to be struggling too at all and was happy to guzzle down some more biscuits when I fed Isabella later. I then went over Panorama to Petrakis for some fruit, and back to the camping to collect money and see off the Swiss.
I then had time to feed the dogs and myself. There were a number of vans around the large hole near the bar so the occupants of Z6 decamped to Z1 as it was less smelly and less noisy.
The postman arrived on his motorbike with a letter for Georgia and a docket for me to collect my 96 used tennis balls from The Netherlands. I’ll pick them up from the post office when I go for a ride tomorrow morning.
The postman came back a couple of hours later with a letter for Anke which he’d forgotten to deliver. Can’t knock the postal service for trying.
Later, a car arrived with a family who are heading to Gavdos tomorrow so were looking for accommodation for one night. Their small child had just thrown up and the mother was desicking the child and its seat. The child then took to wandering aimlessly. They decided on Z3 as they could all share a big bed by shoving the singles together. The guy then reversed into Michaelis’ pickup which didn’t do much damage to the pickup but broke the rear light of their Skoda. Michaelis reckoned 70€ damage to the pickup which is built like a tank anyway and Manolis supplied the customer with some clear tape to fix his rear light lens. He’s going into Paleochora later to raid the cash machine.
A couple of guys arrived to spend a night in Z1 which had been taken over by the occupants to Z6 so I went to put them into Z4 to find it wasn’t ready. They ended up in Z5. Bona has Z3,4,5,6 to clean tomorrow so will be suitably delighted I’m certain.
Hopefully, there will not be another mass arrival like yesterday as it would be good to have a more relaxing evening.
In an earlier telephone conversation with Maria, I suggested she should see out the remainder of her teaching contract so as not to jeopardise her chances of further contracts. There is a little friction between Georgia and Maria who feels beholden for past kindnesses to her. I strongly suggested that Maria stick it out to the end of the contract and between us, we’d muddle through until the end of June. So long as the new bloke does the sitting in the office bit, I’ll show some of the punters around the camping. It’s unlikely to be that busy between now and July. There are some bookings for this weekend but only three accommodation customers booked so far discounting any walk-in punters.
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