Guests -its fair to say they've been a varied bunch! We welcomed former colleagues and friends from back home in South Shields as well as great people we'd met whilst holidaying in Rhodes. We welcomed family who came to stay including our two son's and their fiancee's as well as repeat visits from our youngest offspring who after downing her sixth pint of mythos watching the football told her mother she was "here for a good time not a long time" - the sick bucket soon followed!
We had visitors from farther afield in the guise of Aaron Terroi, Vincent Rennie and Vinnie's wonderful family - Alex and there gorgeous son Milan.Vin and Aaron both play rugby league for Newcastle Thunder and are in the UK from Australia and New Zealand. Both of the lads represent the Cook Islands internationally and it was our privilege to welcome them to Rhodes so they could get some sun on their bones and escape the Geordie climate for a little while.
My cooking skills have been put to test and everyone's survived pizza nights with the wood oven, barbecues and my Greek staple of beef stiffado. Cooking on an olive wood barbecue has been and absolute treat as you can hear and smell the sap from the wood sizzling in the flames. I was expecting a master class in the art of the barby from our antipodean guests and was a bit gutted when they told me they cooked on gas back home - strewth!!
Its not all been beer and skittles though as I've started on my new working life. Part of our plans for spending the summer in Rhodes included me working for a major UK tour operator which I've been doing as a transfer rep escorting holiday makers from their hotels to the airport and new arrivals back again. So far - touch wood - everything has gone really well meeting lots of people and chatting to them about their time here or what they were looking forward to during their stay. I met a nice bloke from the north east who had clearly had a mythos or three prior to his flight home. After standing with him to help him check in for 20 minutes as he was the last in the line, we got to the desk to be told by the Greek staff "What do you want? He's already checked in?" Yes my new mackem friend had just joined the wrong line as he thought it was quicker than the one he should have been in!
When I used to sport my fetching TSG/CID 'stache back in the day my rather cruel colleagues reckoned I looked like a certain character from on the buses? Well so far I haven't found Butler but we've definitely got all those buses out of here!
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