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Do I look tired after last night? I had

a great birthday. It was good...

Skinny-dipping at midnight or something

wasn't it? Yeah partied like we were 21

didn't we? We did! Anyhoo it's back to the

serious stuff today, it's part two of

trying to get the Greek cruising tax paid

This is the main port on the Greek

island of Milos and today we are rectifying

an oversight in the fact that we forgot

to send out postcards - our monthly

postcards to our patrons on that tier

You will be getting your postcards but

they'll be a little bit late this month

which means you'll get next month's

nearly as close to this month's. Yeah sorry about that.

Of course the mission means we've got to find a post

office and we believe there's an information

centre around here somewhere that will

tell us where it is

Well we just found

out that there isn't a post office here

in the main port only courier

services. The post office is about three

or four kilometers away at Tiovasalos I

think it is and so it might mean a bus

trip there but for the post card

situation, just down here there's a

mailbox so we can mail your postcards

and we may be taking a little bus trip.

The reason why we need a post office is

because we need to use a service called what?

Poste Restante

Okay and what does that do? That means that you can have parcels delivered and they'll hold them for

you until you pick them up. And the parcel we're hoping to get delivered is a couple of print copies of

a book that our story has been featured in.

The book is called 'Dream On!' and you can find

it on Amazon in a paperback version or

Amazon Kindle in an

electronic version. And how can they find that Baz? amazon.com

And then they type in ...oh yes ... the author's surname, and Jens' surname

is Brambusch and that will get you the book

up on the search really quickly

We'll put the details down below

Meanwhile I spot a yellow object which

could be a post box

Certainly is Stanley!

It's Monday and it's a special Monday

because it's the Admiral's birthday today

21 again? Yeah. It's also money day today

It is money day today. I can't believe we've been

in Greece for 3 months now and we've got

to pay for another three months of the

Greek cruising tax so once again we

filled out the information online

printed out the forms that came in the

email and now we're going to go to the

bank and pay the dough to the man!

And we're also going to suss out a

restaurant that's just down the coast

here that we're going to treat the

Admiral to dinner to tonight

Yeah it's, I've been reading the reviews

and it looks really good it's called

Oh Hamas! Yeah yeah, so yeah I can't wait

yeah thanks to everyone who pointed us

in the right direction for that one and

also a big thanks to our patrons and

people who bought us a beer. Yes the cash

that you've put forward is gonna treat

the Admiral to a slap-up meal with a

bottle of wine tonight. Thank you and

also Flemming my birthday twin. Yes. Happy

birthday to you mate. It'll be

belated when you get this but happy

birthday. Yeah all right let's go see the

man in the bank

Going to that one? Yes Piraeus Bank

So right here in the

harbour is a bank and apparently you can

pay the Greek cruising tax at any bank or post office so we're going to try this one for convenience

Well after a 35 minute wait

time to be served the cashier's desk of

the bank in the harbour here we were

informed that they cannot process the

payment via a credit card. Actually the words were

this summer the rules have changed and

it can't be paid by credit card, at which

point I said well two months ago when I

paid I actually used that credit card

and paid for it so this summer you can

use a credit card. She said ah but last

time you paid at a post office, this is a

bank. I don't think she knew exactly what

she was doing I don't see a reason why

you can't pay with the credit card. Now

here in the harbour there isn't a post

office, we have to go to the next town to

find the post office which means a bus

journey. Yeah so we've got a choice

basically we either get the bus, don't

know how long that'll take or we find an

ATM of another Bank and then draw out

the cash and then go into the bank and

pay cash. It's a bit late in the morning

to be going to another town to the post

office which may or may not close at

midday so we're gonna find an ATM find

some cash and then go and pay in cash

So I just grabbed 400 euros out of an ATM on

the high street here and the

fee for that was 2 euros 50 which is

round about four dollars 60 cents

The original bank that we went to their

ATM wouldn't accept our card. No it wouldn't no. And we couldn't understand the instructions because they

were all in Greek with no opportunity to change language. Thank you though to

Eurobank ATM where we got the money. Now all we've got to do is find another bank to pay the tax

But it was my birthday

and we weren't going to let the cruising

tax spoil it. Early that evening we

headed over to Oh Hamas Taverna

I'm so glad we came here and not a posh restaurant!

I love this, it's so eclectic!

It is, it's great. And also they

do craft beers here so we've just ordered a couple of different ones

and we'll have some wine with our main meal and

see how the craft beers are. Yeah.

Cute place. I like this place.

and the beach is just there. And they'll serve you out at the beach as well. Alright

this here is piglet and you get a choice

of having french fries with it or

vegetables. I chose french fries of

course. This here is baked goat

And we got

this Sikinos Greek wine. You gotta try see how it goes

Cheers, happy birthday!

Thank you. And cheers and happy birthday Flemming.

Birthday twin.

That was fantastic I'm stuffed

I'm stuffed too, that was really good

I would suggest skipping a starter going

straight for the main and holding out

something for dessert. Yeah.

So thank you very much to our patrons

Yes and Buy Us A Beer folk, you know who

you are

you made that all happen. Yes. We don't eat

out normally! No!

So we really appreciate that! Thank you!

Now we've gotta get back to

the dinghy before we fully lose the

light because we're parked in a kind of

a dodgy situation where there's a few

lines and there's also a shallow patch

So we're gonna try and get back to the dinghy before we lose the light so we can navigate it all

But look ... lovely

Do I look tired after last night? I had a

great birthday. It was good

Skinny-dipping at midnight or something

wasn't it? Yeah partied like we were 21

didn't we? We did. Anyhoo it's back to the

serious stuff today it's part two of

trying to get the Greek cruising tax paid

Plaka? Triovasalos? Yes.

It was a nice ride in a very nice air-conditioned bus. Yeah. Okay

Okay so we're gonna look for the post office first.

Apparentl the post office is over there

So we're at the post office

That was super easy

and I was allowed to pay using my credit

card, no questions, thank you very much

put the data in, credit card, put

your PIN in. Bob's your uncle, that's the

service you expect. And that's what we

got at the post office. Brilliant.

Let's have a look around. Yeah let's explore! Let's have a look around this town

Well we did come out with a little bit more than we bargained for.

Yes!

We've just been into this tech store here

because I saw the Cosmote sign on

their door and I was hoping to get a SIM

card and what we've come out with is a

new dongle Mi-Fi, Wi-Fi, little

hand-held thing

It's got 50GB with it, which is valid for six months and that was 89 euros

He said it will be active in about two

or three hours and if we come back

tomorrow he's gonna try and get that 30

euros of credit that we bought on the

island of Lipsi quire some time ago added

to it as well. We'll come back tomorrow

and see how that goes. Yeah. So... after our phone call. After our phone call. Special phone call.

We'll tell you all about it.

Well the internet saga has come

to a conclusion and it's a good

conclusion so much so I'm so chuffed

with myself that I'm going to crack open

a beer. Cheers. We have one of these

little portable Wi-Fi devices - pocket

Wi-Fi devices they're called here and we

signed up with Cosmote and we got a

Cosmote data only sim to go inside the

Mi-Fi device. We also purchased a 30

euro credit from a supermarket in Lipsi

many many moons ago. Now I've had all

sorts of problems following the

instructions that come on the big

printed receipt to get to the access to

the webpage so you can actually use the

code to activate your 30 euro credit

After spending the whole morning this

morning it's now quarter past eleven

chatting with someone online from Cosmote, they really couldn't help and they

couldn't figure out why I couldn't

access the webpage and then when I ended

the chat something occurred to me and I

thought, hang on a second maybe it's no

good having your computer wirelessly

connected to this device you've got to

physically plug the device in via USB

and connect to the internet via the

device through the USB port. Then when I

tried the web address that was meant to

be the one for activation hey presto it

pops up and it says your phone number is

and I checked that on the back of the

device and it was and it says would you

like to top up your account and I went

yes please and it said how would you

like to do it: credit card PayPal or a

pre-purchase credit. I clicked on that one

and we now have our 30 euros of credit

lodged with our account lodged on our

Cosmote phone number, we're good to

go and there are lots and lots of

options here for topping up in various

amounts for various lengths of time, I

won't go into details just suffice it to

say it's finally done, it's finally

fixed and we can top up as much as we

want. I'm a very happy camper. Yes. Now I

could get on with the rest of my day!

Next week on sailing A B Sea we have a good

look around a couple of places on the

Greek island of Milos and we reveal what

that special phone call was all about. If

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