Monday, June 15, 2015

anchors aweigh

there we were – hippolyta and I – relaxing and enjoying a last afternoon of greek sun before we return home early tomorrow...


...when a huge boat comes into the bay with a large letter 'b' on it and hippolyta (wrongly) assumes it must be my personal luxury yacht that has come to collect her as a special surprise on the last day of our hols. buttons hippo does a bit of googling and discovers that it is the 'mayan queen'...


...buttons hippo then and tells her that it belongs to alberto bailleres, owner of one the largest mining companies in the world producing 25,000 kg of gold and 2.5 million kg of silver annually. as if this wasn't enough to excite hippolyta to paroxysms of near delerium, it turns out signore bailleres also owns a chain of department stores, specialising in brand names like Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Burberry and Prada.

i left her on the beach waiting for the mexican millionaire to send a dingy for her... this will not end well...

2 comments:

Hippolyta said...

Was it only a week ago that we were sunbathing together ...?

Now I've recovered from the disappointment of Monday evening (what is wrong with these modern multimillionaires?)and my homeward journey (so undignified to be packed), I have been looking back with fondness on our holiday together (if you don't count all the hangers-on we seem to attract).

Let's do it again sometime!!!

buttons said...

when?????