We arrived to a sunny Kefalonia on Tuesday, and were collected from the airport by our friends Jim and Denise, and taken back to Pessada where we were eager to change into shorts and flip-flops. However, the sunshine was short lived, and almost straight away the blue skies gave way to clouds. Big, black clouds, full of torrential rain, laced with lashings of thunder and lightening! Not quite what we were hoping for, and sure enough the plot quickly turned into a claggy, wet quagmire. The overcast skies meant that there wasn't enough sunlight to make much solar power, so we had virtually no electricity. I slipped over in the mud wearing a pair of white jeans (which are now cut into shorts!!), and the prospect of a weeks swimming and snorkelling suddenly seemed highly unlikely.
Having survived the storms, we got out and about and did some local walks, met up with friends, and finally got a swim in at St. Thomas' beach, well Dave did, I wimped out on that occasion.
On Monday evening, with the weather more settled we invited Jim and Denise over and had a bonfire party. It was a lovely evening sitting out under the stars, supping local wine and eating chilli and potatoes baked in the embers. A bit like bonfire night in England, but warmer!
Anyway, the weather isn't going to improve much over the next week, so at the moment we're making plans to get off of the island (easier said than done this time of year!) and get an earlier boat from Igoumenitsa, near Corfu up the Adriatic Sea to Trieste, east of Venice where we plan to have a look at Slovenia. Fingers crossed!!
