Sing this one to the tune of "Mr Toad's Wild Ride" from "Wind in the Willows" and if you didn't read that when you were a kid then ain't that a hell of a shame! I won't write an editorial on "Wind in the Willows" as those who know will smile and those who don't will spend the rest of their lives searching aimlessly and hopelessly for something they will never find!
So a big part of the day was rolling the scooter to Pyrgos. The insurance is good. The helmet is good. Move out!
I hadn't even gone a kilometer before the front wheel took a little slide going around a corner. That gave quite a good little tingle!
The speed limit on the road to Pyrgos is 60 kph but no-one seems to care about that and the scoot does quite nicely at 90 kph. If you're raising your eyebrows, convert that to mph and you'll find it's not that breathtaking. What it showed me is that it can hold a decent cruising speed and taking it out, say, a hundred kilometers would take about two hours ... or just about an hour if I hold it at 90 kph. If you like burning rubber then you'll sniff and walk away but if your interest is in soaking up the coolness of it all then it works just fine.
What made it a wild ride is that there was a fairly hefty cross-wind and that made for some dancing. This wasn't riding for thrills but rather to get a good handle on how the scoot behaves and really it's not too bad. So long as you don't expect it to run like a cafe racer and you stay cool with what it can do then it will get it done.
So that was a little bit wild but the really wild part is in the supermarket. Imagine the next time you go shopping for food that someone has changed all the labels on the products and you can't read them anymore. If you think you could figure it all out just from the pictures, guess again. It's not that easy! Don't read this as any kind of a complaint as I knew the supermarket would be the first hardest part and it gives one peach of a reason to learn Greek!
I'll have another article for exploring Pyrgos as that won't do without pictures. I'd love to show it to you rather than just writing it so that'll come next time. If it doesn't rain tomorrow, maybe then. I know there's the next re-match of the To the Death Chess Match tomorrow and that will be excellent as the current standing is 3:2 and I'm down one. It's a fist fight for sure! Hopefully I'll get to hang with Mary for a few hours but then she will bounce for the rest of her day and so will I. So long as it's not raining, I'll go exploring and the objective will to get back to Pyrgos and get you some pictures plus get me some knowledge of just how the hell to get around there. I'm not complaining as I love it but it's not an easy trick figuring it out. Oh, you want names on the streets? In yer dreams! (laughs)
So a big part of the day was rolling the scooter to Pyrgos. The insurance is good. The helmet is good. Move out!
I hadn't even gone a kilometer before the front wheel took a little slide going around a corner. That gave quite a good little tingle!
The speed limit on the road to Pyrgos is 60 kph but no-one seems to care about that and the scoot does quite nicely at 90 kph. If you're raising your eyebrows, convert that to mph and you'll find it's not that breathtaking. What it showed me is that it can hold a decent cruising speed and taking it out, say, a hundred kilometers would take about two hours ... or just about an hour if I hold it at 90 kph. If you like burning rubber then you'll sniff and walk away but if your interest is in soaking up the coolness of it all then it works just fine.
What made it a wild ride is that there was a fairly hefty cross-wind and that made for some dancing. This wasn't riding for thrills but rather to get a good handle on how the scoot behaves and really it's not too bad. So long as you don't expect it to run like a cafe racer and you stay cool with what it can do then it will get it done.
So that was a little bit wild but the really wild part is in the supermarket. Imagine the next time you go shopping for food that someone has changed all the labels on the products and you can't read them anymore. If you think you could figure it all out just from the pictures, guess again. It's not that easy! Don't read this as any kind of a complaint as I knew the supermarket would be the first hardest part and it gives one peach of a reason to learn Greek!
I'll have another article for exploring Pyrgos as that won't do without pictures. I'd love to show it to you rather than just writing it so that'll come next time. If it doesn't rain tomorrow, maybe then. I know there's the next re-match of the To the Death Chess Match tomorrow and that will be excellent as the current standing is 3:2 and I'm down one. It's a fist fight for sure! Hopefully I'll get to hang with Mary for a few hours but then she will bounce for the rest of her day and so will I. So long as it's not raining, I'll go exploring and the objective will to get back to Pyrgos and get you some pictures plus get me some knowledge of just how the hell to get around there. I'm not complaining as I love it but it's not an easy trick figuring it out. Oh, you want names on the streets? In yer dreams! (laughs)
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