I do like my reflections, and two weeks ago the wind dipped sufficiently for me to get some photographs. Note that the road is still visible to the left of the water. At this point I didn't think it would get submerged when the reservoir was full. Bit of a design flaw that...

One more reflection for luck. You can see that funny rock again here. On the first picture the water level was at its base.

In our previous blog we showed you this mudslide. It has now been well-and-truly flattened.

As we skirted around the valley we could see a couple of trucks up in the hills to our left. We have driven up that track you can see ourselves a few years ago. When we got to the top, we made the mistake of continuing along it as it veered left. Don't go that way. The track merges with a stream and if you are lucky you end up on a grassy plateau with just enough room to turn around. You then have to drive back the way you came, which is not much fun.

And speaking of not much fun, this is what happened to us. Below us is the main turning into Foinikas. Our car however, is stuck. As we drove down here, we sank into the mud and were unlucky enough to get a boulder lodged underneath us. So we were unable to go forwards, and unable to reverse. Now, we always carry in our car some useful tools for this kind of situation. The most important tool was the blue and white mat. I was able to lay on that as I began the slow process of digging under the car to get to the boulder.

Oh, one important tip. Before I resorted to digging, we tried putting vegetation under the wheels to give them a bit more grip. But the problem wasn't grip, it was the boulder. Anyway, at the time, we were banking on the vegetation trick to work, so paid no thought to what vegetation we were using. This included gorse. When this didn't work, and I had to resort to digging, I also had to deal with lots of prickly gorse. So if you do try using vegetation as an opening gambit, make sure it is stuff you won't mind lying in if you have to.