Birds Beasts and Relatives.

This is the title of a book by the late Gerald Durrell whose brother Lawrence also wrote in one way or another about Greece. Gerald spent his formative years in Corfu before WW2 where his curious and acquisitive nature lead him to collect all manner of wildlife.  He recounts his adventures in  books called My Family and Other Animals and the sequel Birds Beast and Relatives.  For many years these had been the only two books that I had read ( apart from 97 out of 98 Biggles books ).

This is the corpse of beast  no.1 found in  Mrs Nikos' kitchen sink - we gave it a christian burial.

This is beast no.2 taking residence on my motorcycle and shocking me considerably.  Mrs Nikos called it a grass hopper - I called it a ******* locust.

Beass no. 3: This is a fine example of οδηγημένη ψύλλος γάτα εστιατορίων

Beast no.4:  Goat - Camila sex it please - I am obviously incapable.

Now that I have finished with the beasts I intend to deal with the relatives and other strange or curious things  found in Greece this year:

The newest member of our family - Ginger el Greco, found abandoned 4 houses down the road.

Mrs Nikos aka αυτή που φορά το παντελόνι

  Next I would like to illustrate how confusion may easily set in whilst shopping in local supermarkets.

This is not meths.

This stuff has the same effect as meths if misused.

Essex  appears to be the number one brand of soap powder in Greece!

The crowing glory of this summer trip has to be the ability to produce shaky and poor quality video clips that are seemingly impossible to edit on my stone age equipment of journeys on Greek roads.  I have seen some very good advice shared by fellow bloggers and chose to do my own thing.

This is a flight deck ("cockpit" Camilla) view of the standard solid state video cam mounted on the mirror stem with those ball joint thingys.  The wire leads to the remote control....

....that is craftily mounted on the right hand mirror stem.  You don't get this superior functionality with Hero cams!

And finally a quiz.

Question 1:  What is the diameter of the drive shaft (to the nearest 0.2 mm) of this Yamaha micro Tenere?

Question 2: What in three words do these road signs found commonly on the verges of Greek roads near road side shrines signify?

That's all for now folks.