Windy BBQ Moudhros Quay

I think I mentioned that Michelle & Chris, the Kiwis, were here in the previous blog. So too were another three boats – Italian (Christina & Louis), English (Cherry & Hugh), German (Liz & Johannes).

Liz and Johannes were late arrivals on their very small motor cruiser. They had travelled down the German rivers and canals to the Black Sea and then through Istanbul, Turkey. What this meant was that in order to “Enter Greece officially” they had to arrive at an entry port (and check in with Customs, Port Police, Immigration etal) which Moudhros unfortunately is not. They had never been in “open waters “other than a wee bit of the Black Sea and a calm short crossing from the Dardanelles. They had visited the Moudhros Port Police and they had said that they needed to check in around at Myrina and they should leave immediately a three hour plus trip. Now it was blowing a real hoolie & I for one would not wanted to leave port and we were all a bit concerned for them. Michelle & I suggested they revisit the Police and say that they would go as soon as possible but were a bit worried about leaving in this weather. The police were OK about it (as we thought they would) and even said they could even go ashore which strictly they shouldn’t.

Result #1

Now the BBQ had been Hugh’s idea early on the Sunday morning when it was calm. He was providing the actual BBQ equipment and we were really lucky the shops AND the butchers here were open on a Sunday so Louise & Michelle headed up to the village and stocked up on things to cook. The BBQ was on.

Result #2

We hunkered down behind the wall at the fishermen’s awning and had a great time.

Hugh did well getting the actual BBQ alight and cooking all the food.

The Italians who were in there mid to late seventies brought the fish they had caught and prepared as well as some lovely Italian wine. We brought the trusty Greek plastic bottled stuff! At the end of the evening while clearing up we noticed that Christina was using our wine to clean the tables! She must have thought it that bad it was some sort of surface cleaner, lol.