Maria …. Aaargh!!

The reason we returned to Mytilini was to see our winter accommodation and pay a deposit.

For some time now Louise has been searching for somewhere for us over the winter as Camira must come out the water for maintenance and just to dry out.

The existence of the refugee camps and NGO people means that the estate agents are not interested in short term lets. The minimum they seem to be looking for is a year. This despite none of the properties ever moving! Crazy.

In addition Booking.Com & Air B&B were still asking really stupid summer tourist rates.

Louise had contacted loads of these with a view to getting a reasonable quote off line  for our four & a half months proposed stay .

This is a feat in itself because the websites block any communication with an attempt at sending – contact details, phone numbers e-mail etc.

In the end she asked the people interested in a deal to phone Mytilini Marina who had agreed to kindly pass on our contact details. What a palaver!

In the end – success! – She negotiated a lovely 2 bed apartment, very modern and cat friendly and in an almost ideal situation.

Meet Maria……

We told her our max budget of Euros 500, (Air B&B wanted Euros 1,350 pcm).

Maria……. She couldn’t do it for that, but would for Euros 600 all inclusive of water, electricity & heating. We thought about it and although a lot more than we wanted to spend.

We agreed, OK

She had arranged for us to visit the house to view it on Wednesday, the day after our arrival back in Mytilini. We loved it; bit of a climb up a hill but so what.

Happy we had an agreement.

Maria……. She now couldn’t do it for Euros 600 inclusive but we would have to pay any fuel bills over a Euros 100 a month.

We agreed, OK

We emailed to ask if she would like a deposit?

Maria……  “before we get to that” She could not now do it all inclusive we would now have to pay all the bills.

Bye Bye Maria!!

How do you solve a problem like Maria ?

We were just about to leave on our planned sail around of Lesvos, and had literally started the engine and began casting off lines when Louise received the message.

Sailing postponed back to the drawing board.

She couldn’t understand why we were dissapointed and ditched her.

More like, lol

There is an addendum to this story ………..later