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The Captain’s Table is open.

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The Captain's TableAfter an explosion and fire destroyed the Captain’s Table in Molyvos harbour on Tuesday 13 May, nobody believed that the restaurant could possibly re-open this summer. Nobody except Melinda, Theo and the family that is.

Today is Thursday 6 August and all the hard work has paid off.

The Captain’s Table is open!

New growthWhen you consider that what was left of the old building had to be knocked down before
the rebuild could start, you realise just how much hard work has gone into today’s opening.

The building is new, the kitchen is new, the tables and chairs were rescued from the debris of the explosion. Even the badly burnt tree next to the restaurant is making an effort and today has new green shoots to help celebrate the re-opening.

A new chapter begins for the Captains Table, let us hope that the final lines are

“and they all lived happily ever after.”

Lesvos Lightning

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On 6 August we had another spectacular electrical storm. Lesvos Lightning can be dramatic and the gaps between strikes can sometimes be counted in seconds. Below is a very short video that gives you some idea of the ‘fun’. Luckily for us, the rain didn’t arrive so we could sit on out on our doorstep and admire the show.

I am not sure that the people of Sigri and Eressos would have enjoyed it quite as much, the ground strikes seemed to be mostly in their direction. As you can see from the times of the strikes, that was a pretty hectic 10 minutes. I should also say that I did miss quite a few others in that period! These are just the most spectacular.

If you have any pictures of the Lesvos Lightning Show then please email them to us, we would love to share them.

Of course, we had plenty of time to prepare as Weather Underground gave a pretty accurate forecast. I like to think that was because of the data coming from the Molyvos Weather Station, but I suspect others had a hand in it too.

Lesvos Weather

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Some visitors to Lesvos comment that web sites reporting Lesvos Weather don’t always reflect what is happening in the more popular tourist area of Anaxos, Petra and Molyvos.

Well, now you can see a local report from out weather station just outside Molyvos.

View current conditions at the Molyvos Weather Station web-site

 

Visit the Molyvos Weather Station on Weather Underground

 

Lesvos Weather Screen shotWould you like to see our weather station data on your mobile? No problem at all!

Type http://goo.gl/QUN803 into your smartphone web browser and you will get our ‘specially formatted for Smartphone’ webpage. The picture on the left is a screengrab from an android phone.

If you have your Smartphone handy and have a scanner app then you can scan the QR code at the bottom of the page to take you to the Smartphone webpage.

There are links to show graphs of daily and weekly temperatures, rainfall, barometer and wind speeds.

There is also a UV index reading to try and help you stay safe in the sun.

Our weather station is new and the software is experimental. The numbers will be correct but you might find from time to time that we have stopped updating. We started to collect data on 25 June 2014 so we don’t have much historical data.

We hope that the information on the Lesvos Weather webpage is useful and interesting.

Lesvos Weather qr code

The Goldfinch and the Sunflower

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Lesvos is famous as a destination for birdwatchers.

Right outside our window, we have a 2.6 metre tall sunflower. Every day a pair of Goldfinches come to pull juicy young seeds from the flowers. Lunch for them, lunchtime entertainment for us.