Thanks: 0
Likes: 0
Needs Pictures: 0
Picture(s) thanks: 0
Results 1 to 5 of 5
Thread: Just Back from Greece
-
11th September 2007, 08:35 AM #1Member
- Join Date
- Nov 2005
- Location
- Kihikihi, TeAwamutu
- Age
- 80
- Posts
- 98
Just Back from Greece
Just got back, last night, from a week in Greece.
We were in a village called Kalamilli which is about an hours drive from Kalamata.
This is the area where they have been having the fires.
One afternoon we were watching 5 of those planes that scoop up water from lakes or the sea and dump it on the fire.
2 of them flew past our apartment, which was on the sea front, probably about 400 metres from us.
They then did about 10 runs further out but we were able to photograph them.
1 plane was a Russian jet that we were told could pick up 150,000 litres of water and the other 4 were turbo props, a lot smaller but pretty fascinating to watch.
Luckily we could not see any of the fires and we were down wind of them.
Had good weather, up in the high 80's, but there was a lot of wind in the afternoons for most days.
We are going to miss being able to get to the Continent in a couple of hours for a long weekend when we return to New Zealand in December.
We came to London for 2 years but have stayed here for 10 so it has been good.
I have just received a good farewell pressie. I was made redundant from my job after 8 years and got 27 weeks gross pay, tax free, plus 8 weeks notice which they paid me out. Great considering we had already booked and paid for our tickets home before this happened.
-
11th September 2007 08:35 AM # ADSGoogle Adsense Advertisement
- Join Date
- Always
- Location
- Advertising world
- Age
- 2010
- Posts
- Many
-
26th January 2008, 02:57 AM #2Novice
- Join Date
- Jan 2008
- Location
- Bulgaria
- Posts
- 10
Too bad that those fires ruined so much of the nature. Greece is quite nice place, been in Thessalloniki last year.
-
26th January 2008, 08:21 AM #3
Sounds like an interesting visit to Greece to say the least. I was in Athens in 1962 and I remember it quite well. It was my first overseas trip and the first foreign place I had been to. Yes you will miss being so close to the continent but I am sure you will be pleased to be back home in December. Good luck.
Reality is no background music.
Cheers John
-
26th January 2008, 10:39 AM #4Senior Member
- Join Date
- Jun 2007
- Location
- In a House
- Posts
- 353
I was in Greece 3 years ago and coming from Australia I thought the place was organised chaos, you could not pay me enough to live their, but each to their own the best parts about Greece are the Islandswe went to Mykanos and Santorini were absolutley the most beautiful places I have ever been and the people were great will be certainly going back to the Islands in the future
-
26th January 2008, 10:53 AM #5
I suppose organised chaos beats plain chaos!
Similar Threads
-
Carba-Tech back in Canberra
By Master Splinter in forum Links to: TIMBER & HARDWARE SUPPPLIERSReplies: 0Last Post: 22nd April 2006, 06:14 PM -
Im Back
By ele__13 in forum ANNOUNCEMENTSReplies: 5Last Post: 20th March 2006, 12:34 PM -
WIP - The back room
By Shannon in forum WOODWORK PICSReplies: 6Last Post: 8th March 2006, 08:51 AM -
Back from Holidays
By dai sensei in forum Hatches, Matches & Dispatches. Birthday greetings and other Touchie-feelie stuff.Replies: 0Last Post: 20th January 2006, 09:40 AM -
Back in the workshop
By jow104 in forum WOODWORK - GENERALReplies: 6Last Post: 15th March 2005, 10:40 PM