Being Back There

Redmires Reservoirs
- one of our regular haunts

 Five and a half weeks since we escaped from Kalymnos, and time spent in the UK is best described as being 'okay' though it isn't where we would choose to be. We have both had a stinking cold, the first for years - it has hit Sherri particularly badly, two weeks in and she is still suffering.

Summer - what summer?

Mercifully the weather has been largely cool and cloudy, everyone else is complaining about the lack of summer but it suites us just fine.

We have kept active having been for a walk almost every day - it looks like about another four weeks before we can make an escape - just need to sort our French 180 day visa and we will be good to go - but where to?

Back to the UK and 'summer'

Escape from Alcatraz

We had planned to stay in Kalymnos for another couple of weeks but day on day it got hotter and hotter, topping out at around 40C - way to hot for us. So we brought our flights/hotel/train/car hire forward and rolled up to the harbour to find the ferry was cancelled - oh, oh.

Sherri set about working her magic and after a few goes she found a guy who had a 'friend' - so off we went. Another guy turned up and we hopped into small inflatable for the eight mile journey to Kos. Luckily it was flat calm as there were no life jackets on offer. The rest of the journey went more normally!

Above the Roaches, bright and breezy

Back in the UK it was the same sketch as ever, cool, breezy and quite unsettled, but at least we weren't being roasting alive. A few days away in Leek gave me the chance to refresh the Staffordshire area cragshots, hopefully we will do the same for Lancashire sometime soon - if the weather ever improves!