Monday, 15 September 2008

Reluctant Hero (and half of a pair of plonkers!)

Friends Rainer, Doris, Felix and Lucas arrived from Germany in their new camper van for an extended stay from 22nd August. Many Brownie points were awarded for their itinerary:- by land all the way to Piraeus passing though a handful of Balkan countries.
Points were then forfeited by the boys for gross stupidity on their first night here! On their way back to the van they played volley ball with the keys using telephone wires as the net. Inevitably the keys got caught up there, and the boys then threw up a wallet to dislodge them. This (containing inter alia passport and a very valuable travel pass) landed on a random balcony. It was about 1 a.m.! Disaster! Many fruitless strategies were adopted but eventually young Nikos from Yanni's Place - not known for his proactive behaiour stepped in, found a ladder from somewhere (no questions asked!) and retrived the items. He wallowed in the praise!