After yesterday’s bonkers post here’s a quick and sensible one. After telling everyone to come to Greece for their holidays the other day, we then spent Tuesday night/Monday morning being rained on.
Come Wednesday afternoon things had settled a bit so those people arriving tonight (as it’s Wednesday afternoon as I write this) should at least get a warm and dry welcome. Mind you, it’s still pretty humid so it could well turn to thunder again.
And it seems my call to action was answered. The bit where I advised folk not ignore the British newspapers and come to Greece as all was well. According to Greek Reporter “The number of inbound visitors in Greece jumped 45.6% to 1.728 million in the January-March period this year, from 1.187 million during the same period in 2014, while travel receipts grew 12.8% to 532 million euros over the same period, the Bank of Greece (BoG) said.” (Not sure about their abbreviation there, but whatever.) Click the link above to get the full story.
And talking of travel, I’m off to Tilos on Friday. Seems like ages ago I reserved the apartment. Good job I didn’t wait for a last minute deal as the complex has another apartment the same as mine being advertised for the same week but for four times the price. Not sure how that’s going to help tourism, and it may have been a booking.com thing rather than a price set by the hotel, but I’m glad I’ve got my piece of paper stating how much (or little, actually) I am supposed to be paying.
In other news I heard a rumour that the ‘Noddy train’ was back from its service and so the green one will go and the lovely red and yellow one will come back. At least it doesn’t have eyes on it like the one in Romania did. This was at Castle Râșnov and had we known it only took us up a hill and round a corner we would have walked. Mind you, it keeps someone in employment.
And, as the novel ‘Dracula’ was published 118 years ago yesterday, I thought you might like to see one of Neil’s photos of ‘Castle Dracula’ (which isn’t anything to do with the fictional castle and very little to do with Vlad Tepes (Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431–1476/77)) which was taken on the same day as The Romanian Noddy Train. And with this, I will leave you and go and get the red rain dust off the outdoor furniture.
