Spent the afternoon festering around in the sun. Went to get an internet forecast and came back to find circling fishing boats making right for where we were tied up. Spoke to the Greek guy on the yacht next door who had been ‘asked’ to move for the fishermen and they had looked for us too. He suggested we lay low until they were well berthed either side of us! This we did.
Meantime he told us his life story and his take on Greece’s economic problems. Germany and Angela Merkel are not high on his list of favourites. He, Alex, is 67 and does delivery trips for Kiriakolis the charter company. On his way from Athens to Corfu. Has just written a book, semi-autobiographical about his 4 year relationship with an 18 year old student and all the things it taught him about life. Fascinating guy and another real one-off who fits into the independent life of a delivery skipper better than anywhere else.
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