Repairing the school
Thanks to Jean for alerting me to the progress of the nursery school kin Yialos. As you may know, this was critically damaged in the storm last November. Now, it seems, work is progressing well, and the building looks, on the outside, almost as good as new. (Assuming I have the right building!) I believe the work is funded by your donations received from an appeal – and possibly by national and EU grants? It’s situated by the basketball court at the back of Yialos if you want to walk by and take a look.
In home news, those who were following my trip recently and the cancelled flight business here’s the update on my claim with EasyJet. I first tried a site that offered to do it all for you for a %, which was fine by me as I am lazy and wasn’t expecting anything back anyway and didn’t take out travel insurance as a) I never bother on short/cheap flights, 2) I already have medical cover on my health insurance and c) once a thing is paid for the money’s gone as far as I am concerned. Still, in his case, I thought I’d give it a go. The first company took all my details and a couple of days later got back to me saying they couldn’t help. This made me think that EasyJet has already found a way of saying the delay/cancellation was not their fault, even though they must have known it was going to happen before the cancelled plane took of for Rhodes on its previous trip.
The second company I tried, after loading up the info, told me their site was broken and please call back later. Hm, maybe. Meanwhile, I’d contacted EasyJet themselves and a day later, someone rang me to talk me through how to do the claim online, which was a bit surprising. So, I’ve done that, and it’s now with them. They will take a good couple of months to get back to me with some excuse. After that, I’ll try to find some kind of European Union ‘claim your delay’ thing as I am sure I have seen such a service/right advertised.
And that’s it for today. Have been up since 3.30 (no idea why) and am off to walk to Yialos and back for some gratuitous exercise.
