On our last night in Thailand, we had a party for a few close friends (ie all our friends in Thailand!) in the local pub, which we normally refer to as "The Standard". Paul and Jojo, landlord and landlady, laid on great food and music and created an ideal atmosphere for seeing us off. Some of you may recognise above, Adrian on the left, Tony in the middle and Garry on the right. As the next destination would be a settled one, Garry took the opportunity to invest in a Hawaain shirt. What do you think?
Scott with his bevy of beauties. Now that Scott has re-assumed his role as bowman, he will be able to ask Siham for "head", five or six times during a race. She will always oblige. Non sailors may want to have this explained!
This is Thane who we sailed with down to Samui, during the regatta and back again, with his partner Dyer.
Nice picture isn't it - Gary and Pum.
After leaving The Standard, a hard core few (Tony, Siham Adrian and Alison) went on to a karaoke bar. Garry was tucked up in bed oblivious. At least we weren't thrown out this time.
The morning after, on our last day. We spent the day having a proper "Sunday", something Tony had been looking forward to for ages. Relaxing on the beach and larking about in the pool.
Fishing is a dangerous hobby - check out the guy wearing his crash hat. No-one wears them on their motorbikes, but they wear them fishing instead.
After spending the day on the beach , round the pool, making fountains out of the spa pump and going backwards down the slide, we went to the bar. Tony took control of the music and Siham had a blow dry! Tony lent us his car and driver to take us to the airport to set off for Cyprus, via Egypt.
This is Alison stood on a pyramid. Bit of a story with this. We had an 11 hour stopover in Cairo. We decided to take a trip with Egypt Air from the airport to the pyramids. We agreed with Egypt Air to pay the $35 price for the trip, but we fell lucky. It was the opening day of the new terminal three and as we were the first passengers to arrive, Egypt Air very kindly gave us the trip for free. 
So we visited the pyramids and the Sphynx and had a lovely day out including a fantastic lunch. Thank you Egypt Air. Who says there's no such thing as a free lunch?
On to the next phase of our little adventure. We are now in Cyprus and the first thing we had to do when we arrived, was to secure jobs. So like you do, we went to the local pub for inspiration. Unfortunately, it had been knocked down. However, whilst walking down the street we found Stavros, aka Tony Soprano, and had a beer with him and his lovely ladies! He was the landlord of the football club bar that had been knocked down and is now the manager of another bar.
Larnaka (where we are living) has a great deal of history and plenty of things to see and do.
It's a small world and Seanoid and Mark from Hornsea (formerly Hedon) were on holiday in Pathos. We caught up with them in Limassol and they very kindly delivered some "stuff" from England. They are getting married next year, after a long engagement, so everyone wish them Congratulations. So what progress have we made? We can make bread, count to ten in Greek, we've bought a bike (to share), Alison is working in a nursing home and Garry is busy looking for a job.
Bye for now. The blogs will continue.
Garry and Alison
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