bloodycrashboy

Leaving Milo's after 7 days, wife wants to stay for another week.

We went to Naxos in 2006, and a though we totally loved it we don't go somewhere a second time to try to recapture the same experience, it's never the same.

So I thought I would repair the scooter I hired here in Milos, Greece (as much as I could), I broke the r/h mirror and ground away part of the front brake lever, scratches and dents on the exhaust heat shield and a few scratches to the plastic belly pan and various other parts of the right hand side. Looking at all the carnage, and having dealt with hire companies in the past regarding damage, I thought I could possibly be up for a couple of hundred euro €12 for a new mirror, €7 for a new leaver from the local motorcycle shop was all I could repair. To my relief the 2 pretty Greek girls at the hire company were worried more about the injuries that my wife and myself had sustained than the damage to the scooter. They seemed surprised that I had taken the time to repair the scooter myself, and when I showed them the damage that I couldn't repair, one just gave a wave of her hand and said "no problem, it's ok". So, total bill for my stupidity was only €19, yay. Also revisited the hairpin where I crashed and of course, putted around at very slow speed which was actually 20 kph, then rode it again at 40 kph which still seemed relatively slow, so my estimation of crash speed would probably have been about 50 to 55 kph not 20 kph. So I think we are both very fortunate not to have sustained more serious injuries, although my wife has a sore arm that requires pain medication, for muscular bruising which she keeps reminding me of. On a side note, had an absolutely delicious meal last night of fried whole calamari, octopus stew and the obligatory Greek salad, washed down with a local bottle of retsina, finished off with a complementary Greek aperitif. ☺

LOL, hardly fast, and mostly plastic.

I've been riding motor cycles for over 37 years, all kinds, from mopeds to the latest crutch rocket that is speed limited to 300 kph. Hired an automatic 125 scooter here in Greece. Hooked into a hairpin bend at about 20 kph, low sided and drove myself and my wife into the bitumen. Both of us got away with very minor in jury's, but I managed to totally freak my wife out as I got winded when I hit the ground. She thought I had punctured a lung with a rib the way I was groaning and moaning like a true Hollywood. Moral of the story, don't be a dick head on a scooter, especially when on holiday.

I don't know if anyone would be interested, but my wife is writing a blog on our travels (with photos I have taken) She is a pretty good writer, but I might be a little bit biased. http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/andjulbed/2/1431455852/tpod.html#_

Living the dream, Milos, Greece, 7 days of relaxation and fresh seafood dinners.

Sorry for so many posts on this one thing, but Im still learning to drive my tablet

I couldn't past the whole page, but above is the link to the page I got here in Shanghai. Shure looks like things have changed for the better

https://www.google.com/search?q=tiananmen+square+massacre&biw=1280&bih=800&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=jR1VVbGYJqTwmAWp0oHwDw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg

Most Australian hotels still charge for inhouse internet, usually through a third party at exorbitant rates. Travel to any other industrialized nation and its all free, free WiFi in most shops here in China and free unlimited Internet in our hotel. Australia needs to lift its game quick time, we are fast becoming a technologically backward nation. Have found here in China that we can still access Facebook and Google and not had any so called "bad" sites blocked. Seems like the government here is relaxing its restrictions on content.

Having a relaxing breakfast in Shanghai, glad the flying is over with for a few days. Time to soak up the local atmosphere. Drive from airport last night was a spin out, spaghetti highways that seemed about 10 stories high! Fantastic neon skyline from the room.

Got relos coming to house sit, they can use her car, not mine

Leaving to go to Europe in 1 week for 7 weeks holiday. Starting to get excited ☺

Changed the oil in my wife's outback for the first time today. Burnt my hand on the exhaust manifold!!! The oil filter is surrounded by the exhaust (heat shielded) but even the heat shield was bloody hot!!!!! Lesson learnt, next time I wear gloves ☺ Used nulon fully synthetic ☺

The only thing they worry about is if the car will interact with their stupid phone!

Jumping for joy My aircon compressor stopped working today Did a search here, tried unplugging a couple of connectors and checked a couple of fuses but no joy. noticed batt terminals were a bit corroded, cleaned them and voila, cold air, yay

opps, stuffed that up :-(

Not done in ED, hopefully it will look better when the stitches come out next week.There's 7 stitches inside the slice as well as outside, don't know if that makes a difference

It was a rather large syst. I chose this doctor because she cut some skin cancer from my wife's face and did a fantastic job. Just a couple of fine lines

Took my bandage off last night, looks like they really stiched me up ? Looks pretty rough, hope the scar isn't too lumpy. ? Happy that the contents are gone (hopefully for good) Glad that its on my back

Had a minor surgery today to remove a cyst from my back, feeling happy now its all over

I just poke mine Captain, she then turns onto her side and all is peaceful again

These are golden orb spiders in my back yard, one is the size of an average adult hand, the other is slightly smaller, but its web spans about 6 meters!

Im a tradesman (sheetmetal worker) and could most certainly work in this field for the armed forces. A company I worked for built the Fremantle class patrol boats. Or I could teach in my field. As far as cannon fodder is concerned, the armed forces are not going to put geriatrics on the front line