Last night's pyrotechnical display exacts its price: once more Joe's bed is wet. The cleaners arrive and I show the damage to Venera whose English vocabulary seems to be more or less the equivalent of my Greek one. Nero (water) I say, pointing to the ceiling, lest she suppose the damp mattress had another cause. she asseses the situation and says "change" - the usual preliminary to the regular (or, rather, irregular) linen change. I agree, though I don't follow the stream of Greek that comes after. Meanwhile, the other cleaner, who always has a little of the deer in the headlights about her, begins cleaning the balcony - a first in our experience at this hotel. Venera disappears, presumably for fresh sheets, but comes back with a whole new mattress, a Norwegian guest obligingly holding up the other end.
In the midst of all this activity, now taking place around cleaner number two, who has moved from the balcony to the kitchen, more or less blocking the door from the corridor, the Brother arrives to adjust the television (which doesn't receive Capital, a channel with evening films). Maggi says that the Brother's name is actually Mr Fetus, in accordance with the Cypriot custom of using the title Mr, or Mrs or Miss, before a person's first name. But I can hardly bring myself to address such an ineffectual person, or anyone else for that matter, as Mr Fetus, and continue to think of him as the Brother. So, as the Brother makes repeated efforts to reprogram the telly, cleaner number two, apparently unwilling to be seen doing nothing, continues rewashing the kitchen floor. I'm interested in the fact that our television seems to have some games, conveniently identified in English (unlike all the other programming information), including Tetris. J points out that the Brother is trying repeatedly to get out of Tetris. And, as suddenly as it began, it's all over. New bed, television programmed and floor rewashed, and we're on our own.
In the evening to Vlachos taverna with Maggi, Jand and Bill, and Harry and Aylsa. Jane, who is off to Morocco on Friday for a two week holiday, unfortunately suffering stiffness and pain from the side effects kof a hepatitis A injection. Always a good spread, though the moussaka this time is unduly heavy on the béchamel sauce - enough so that I wouldn't order it again, which is a pity as we liked the old recipe. As usual, the side dishes would have made a meal on their own, and Harry and Aylsa's many animals get a bag of leftovers.
In the midst of all this activity, now taking place around cleaner number two, who has moved from the balcony to the kitchen, more or less blocking the door from the corridor, the Brother arrives to adjust the television (which doesn't receive Capital, a channel with evening films). Maggi says that the Brother's name is actually Mr Fetus, in accordance with the Cypriot custom of using the title Mr, or Mrs or Miss, before a person's first name. But I can hardly bring myself to address such an ineffectual person, or anyone else for that matter, as Mr Fetus, and continue to think of him as the Brother. So, as the Brother makes repeated efforts to reprogram the telly, cleaner number two, apparently unwilling to be seen doing nothing, continues rewashing the kitchen floor. I'm interested in the fact that our television seems to have some games, conveniently identified in English (unlike all the other programming information), including Tetris. J points out that the Brother is trying repeatedly to get out of Tetris. And, as suddenly as it began, it's all over. New bed, television programmed and floor rewashed, and we're on our own.
In the evening to Vlachos taverna with Maggi, Jand and Bill, and Harry and Aylsa. Jane, who is off to Morocco on Friday for a two week holiday, unfortunately suffering stiffness and pain from the side effects kof a hepatitis A injection. Always a good spread, though the moussaka this time is unduly heavy on the béchamel sauce - enough so that I wouldn't order it again, which is a pity as we liked the old recipe. As usual, the side dishes would have made a meal on their own, and Harry and Aylsa's many animals get a bag of leftovers.