these fishermen arrived one night and we had inadvertently parked in their spot, they didn't disturb us and managed to unload their catch moored i presume stern to. when they came to leave in the morning the roar of the engines jolted me awake and i hurriedly and blurry eyed took these snaps, we met them again at another unfamiliar location and again encroached upon their space, this time we were in the taverna and they moved our boat a little to the side leaving it perfectly moored. when we arrived back we watched them unloading and pete assisted one of them to connect a makeshift water connection -by proffering and holding a torch. after i had gone to bed the fisherman arrived with a thank you present - a box of squid packed in ice. pete put it in the cool box and came to bed.next morning i was delighted as i am partial to calamari.to cut a long story short we ate a bucketful for lunch and still had loads left - the fridge which is not watertight was leaking squid scented water all over our sofa then down into the bilges and the ice was rapidly melting, not wanting to waste the poor creatures, we changed course to a closer port with a restaurant in the harbour. worried that they would refuse anything but very chilled fish we lugged them round in the heavy cooler complete with chilled water only to find they were the first taverna we had found in Greece that doesn't serve fish!
eventually with no common language, we negotiated a lift with someone who had been delivering fags from the town high up on the hill and they took us to a fish restaurant up in town. they took the squid off us and agreed to cook us a portion each for supper as a thank you- we then walked back down the hill approx 3km lugging the very smelly coolbox in the mid day sun and spent the afternoon trying to remove all traces of squid juice from the boat- had a nice supper though and the restaurant still had 3 kgs of calamari to sell. the moral of this story-avoid fishermen bearing gifts
huge thank you to Peter(ddolfelin) for his precious ua
cheers everyone
jo

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