Dentist, Island Sky, Antarctica…
News today: I’ve been to the dentist and ‘Remotely’ should be available on Kindle today – the two things are not related. Going to the dentist at 6.30 in the evening was a new experience, it’s great how, here in Greece, services are available ‘after hours’ as it were. Back in the UK it would be a nine-to-five situation (it may have changed now) and you would have to take time off work to get seen to, but not here. The same goes for our doctors and the shops. More ‘official’ places close earlier such as the town hall and schools, though children then go to private classes until quite late in the evenings, and utilities tend, on Symi, to only be open certain hours, usually so the guys working there can go out and fix phone lines and do repairs. But it’s still so much easier to be able to visit the dentist after ‘normal’ working hours than take time off. It’s also great when he says, after making another appointment, ‘I’ll call you if I have to attend a council meeting and can’t make it.’
It’s also great that you don’t feel any injection, you can have a good chat (as much as you are able, considering), it’s all very laid back and not at all expensive.
As for ‘Remotely’, this has now been tidied up and a new printed version is available. It’s exactly the same except we found a couple more of my famous typos and took them out while working on the Kindle format. If there are yet more, they can stay there. The Kindle version will be at a reduced price for a while so you may want to grab it now and store it away for later when they may put the price up. Try the Amazon UK page ‘Remotely’ to see if the Kindle link has been added yet, if not come back in a day or so. You can also find it on various other Amazon country sites within the next week, or so I am told.
We had a cruise ship in the other day, the MS Island Sky, a Nobel Caledonia ship with 57 suites all done out in wood and bras. (I left that typo in just to amuse you.) It looks very swish inside and nicely old fashioned. I see that they are doing a ‘In the Wake of Shackleton’ cruise to the Falklands and Antarctica in December if anyone fancies joining me. It’s only ‘from’ £10,495 so I will have to sell a huge amount of ‘Remotely’ before then, but you never know. (I do actually. It’s a dream destination for me which will have to stay as a dream. Ah well.)
Off to check out other impossible holiday destinations I know I shall never go to now, have a good day.
