So, today I decided to go visit Lofou and Lania. Lofou and Lania, per your required reading (links) are old type villages in the mountains outside Lemesos.
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I'm driving along in the mountains enjoying the scenery for a while when all of a sudden, I see a man running wildly up the road. He doesn't motion for me to stop, or slow down, or anything. The dude is just booking it. I slowed down for a sharp turn, look up and see this.
Goats everywhere!Moving on, I drove through Lofou and Lania. The houses were built in the old style with rock and mortar, but most were new. Disappointed, I didn't stop to scamper about on foot. Since I was close to cousin Petros, I called him up and invited myself over.
I show up at his house after about an hour and he's making Koupes. If you'll remember from earlier posts, these are dang tasty. I watched for a bit and decided to help.
Here I am attempting to apply the filling. This is more difficult than it would seem. There's a whole lot of shaking involved to get it to settle. If you push with your finger too hard the skin splits.
After making a dozen or so and mucking up 1/2 of them, I left the job to the Pros.
Bridgitte closing the open ends after the filling is applied.Petros is into flying RC planes and helicopters. Here are some gratuitous RC toy shots he requested I post.
After screwing up the koupes, I went along on a job with Petros. We show up at the customer's house and he wants crown molding installed. Styrofoam molding and silicone caulking for applying (concrete walls) are waiting for us. Petros and his partner (Kostas) start applying on a straight line. I discretely point out that they're about to apply it upside down. They don't pay attention and continue. After considerable difficulty in cutting a corner, they continue to the other side of the wall. I (less discretely) point out they're applying it upside down - again. Nobody pays me any attention. They come up against the 2nd corner and they finally figure out it's being applied upside down. At this point, I suddenly become the crown molding expert (this is a very dynamic crew). The already applied molding is now quickly scraped to be used again correctly. We start under my direction to do this correctly. We do about a wall and a half when it's coffee time. We break for coffee and biscuits discussing paint options. It's now about 4pm, so it's decided to break for lunch and continue the job in a couple of days.
Back at Petros' house, we dine on louvi and leftover souvla. We chat for a bit and then I have to return home. On the way out I spot this.
It's an old British fire engine Petros converted into a crane. He uses it for jobs and also rents it as a platform for filming (mostly soccer matches).Oh BTW, the AC in my room went on the blink again. Called the guy (Kypros Pilakoutas) who "fixed" it before on Friday. He said he's waiting for some gas and he should be by on Monday/Tuesday to fix it again. Called him again on Monday AM and PM. Also Tuesday AM, but still got the same answer. We figured he's taken us for a ride, and it's not worth it chasing him down. Found another local professional who came by AFTER WORK to take a look and actually repair the unit. He didn't want any money after the unit worked. So, anyone out there, even thinking of calling Kypros Pilakoutas for ANY repair, don't do it. He'll take your money and run. I thought I could trust the guy, but even the mighty me, can sometimes go wrong in reading someone. So, to review, hanging out with me, no problem... Calling Kypros Pilakoutas for ANY work, problems galore. This paragraph was updated a week after Kypros Pilakoutas said he's searching for refrigerant.
I am now off the soap box, hoping the Google bots pick this entry up.
For dinner, we had some more kleftiko @ Deftera. It was very good as usual, but I'm sort of getting tired of it. I vote for a menu change!
That's all for now... Stay tuned...
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