We spent last night in the Holiday Inn at the Athens Airport because we arrived too late to take care of the things we need to do when we first pick up François.
Over the winter we had stored François at Clio parking near the airport. If you ever need to store a vehicle in Athens we highly recommend Clio parking. They have provided us fantastic service including picking us up for free at the Holiday Inn this morning. This family run business has been wonderful and their prices are very good also. You can contact them at www.clioparking.gr.
Today consisted of running to two grocery stores, and unpacking and storing two big suitcases. While Ton was doing all of the hard work of unpacking I walked down to the nearest bank to get some Euros.
When I returned I tried the water and while I could hear water running we were not getting any at the tap. When I went outside there was a steady stream of water coming from an over flow valve under François. Fearing a broken water line I went to the campground office to see if they could recommend a RV repair place.
Surprisingly Athens only has a couple of repair places, and the nearest Knaus dealer is in Thessaloniki which is 500km’s from here. Our easy jet lag recovery weekend was looking in jeopardy. Stavros from the campground came down to take a look at the problem so he could explain it to the service center. Stavros started explaining the problem in Greek when the guy on the other end asked for me to be put on the phone. He explained to me in perfect English that our hot water system has an anti-frost feature that when it detects temperatures near freezing it automatically opens a valve in the hot water heater tank and dumps the water in it. This valve will remain open until you manually reset it. He then explained how to reset it, and recommended that next time we store the vehicle we open the valve and drain it to prevent it from happening again. I now have another item on the putting François in storage list. All my fears of long drives and rescheduling our ferry melted away and we are back on being lazy for the next couple of days while we recover from jet lag.