Thursday 29th July we said our goodbyes (how many is that now?) to Brian & Sara and continued our route south to Leros, firstly anchored in Lakki harbour and then on to Xerocambos a bay on the south.
For those of you unhappily following my efforts at renewing my British Passport the following update is the latest in the saga that started in May.
I have today now received a further email requiring me to download, print off, sign and return an affirmation that: I am now back in Scotland and amongst other legal bumf that I don’t owe HMG any money? And, not least, I was not born of a surrogacy arrangement?
I kid you not, and despite explaining our situation that we are travelling umpteen times they seem to NEED me to be back in Scotland.
OK so I am then! and I will sign the bloody form! –I’ll just nick down to the local printers then visit the post office to complete, lol.
In fact that is exactly what I did, I found a printer but the post office in Lakki was closed so we had to hire a scooter to head to Alindi on the other side of the island to post it. I sent it SAE to Diane for onward posting from blighty in the hope of fooling them I was in fact in bonny Scotland!
Hooray! It worked and I am now the (proud?) owner of a post Brexit GB passport, or at least Diane has it. Finally though, if she gets caught with it going through passport control bringing it to me they will confiscate it I am told.
So now I have both my Irish & UK passports I’m sure Judy Dench sorts this out much quicker for 007.
We stocked up at the supermarket in Lakki and filled our water tanks then headed to Xerocambos for a day, our kicking off point for Kalymnos and a new place we have never visited Ormos Palionisi on the east coast of Kalymnos
Fish taverna Kyma in Xerocambos, Leros
Its fishy I’m just drinking beer though eh ?
What a palaver re passport. At least you are sorted now. I am sure Diane will be able to hide it, unless of course she is strip searched. Lol x
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