Thank god for that, bars finished and open in time!

"Its about bloody time" i here you say. Yes, yes, yes, don't go on, you wouldn't believe how manic, stressed and busy i've been getting the bar sorted. I had to paint it from top to floor, i had to re-wire all the electrics from scratch from the building to the front and get rid of all the roof tiles from old roof and bricks from the old plant pots by hand as didn't have a wheel barrow. Moved over 150 roof tiles 5 at a time from front of bar to behind apartments and same for the bricks over 100 and 4 at a time, lets just say i was cursing alot haha.

But on with the show, so as my followers know (i don't mean followers as in a cult sense of the word) i always try to do a little refurb every year but this year everything has changed inside and out so let the tour begin.

So as you can see from this daytime pic i now have a roof that has been extended to the outside edge of bar and extended a little further to the front, gone are the old brick square plant pots and just left the Greek pots, 4 new trees added and a easy access ramp, all my own work may i add.



A night time pic from same angle shows the new trees all lit up and lights on front of roof, that parts not finished yet as may be putting lettering over lights but not 100% sure, still deciding.

I opened on Thurs 3/5/12 for a few trial nights just to make sure that everything worked ok without the electrics tripping out and to see how it looked all lit up at night, official opening tonight Sun 6/5/12. The pic below is of second night open Fri 4/5/12 and as you can see doing very good trade already, better than expected as there is nobody here at the moment.

The bar wasn't fully finished in the picture above as i had made light boxes for coloured bottles to stand on but i was still waiting on the glass for them but then on Sat 5/5/12 the glass was ready (only been waiting 5 days LOL) and now the bar is finished so i've taken a few pics from different angles after i closed last night so you could see the changes i have made in all its glory.

These are the light boxes i made for the coloured bottles to stand on which then gives off a nice coloured glow effect. Very Lawrence Llwewllyn Bowen changing rooms style don't you think haha.

So i was going to buy new sofas and then thought, why spend all that money when the sofas i have a still in good condition, why don't i just refurb them (and i'm tight LOL).

Inside the bar. Gone are the dark tour posters and i gave the walls a fresh coat of paint, realigned the pictures and added Alan's cult movie paintings which look amazing and already creating interest from my customers. Sofas are getting a refurb like the others. The toilets are now all white (big thank you to Helen) and moved my paintings of rock artists on the walls of the corridor. No need for pics of toilets i think LOL

So that's your new and improved Oceanic without any outside help just little old me, its not perfect but as i always say "If you've got perfection you can't improve on it"


Now on to other news of the day. While i was moving all the crap, roof tiles and bricks from the front of the bar i pick up a brick and this little fellow was underneath it, now I'm not scared of much but frogs aren't good looking things are they. Short, fat, squat, no hair, puffy eyes, sounds like me at the moment LOL. So i decided to see how far he could jump by stamping behind him, he was rubbish. So i got him on a spade and flung him in to the field, i flung him gently by the way, not catapult him.


A frog went a-courtin' and he did ride, M-hm, M-hm.

Now as most of you know in Zakynthos town you usually get double parking, sometimes triple parking but this guy just thought, agh, sod it, i can't be arsed to parallel park I'll just park up on pavement, either that or he was trying to commit suicide by driving in to the port water but ran out of petrol.

I took a ride over to Aghios Sostis to look at a hotel for a member on Tripadvisor and decided to sit and have a coffee, there was no one about, just me and the staff of the restaurant, no one on the beach, no one walking around, no cars, nothing, it was bliss and decided to take this pic while sat there at a restaurant called "Maestro". I like days like this but would have been better if Helen was there. Don't you dare think I'm going soft in my old age. i still got a nasty bite LOL.

So that's the bar finished, Drinks chilled, and time for me to have a little relax but after the first two nights I've had don't think I'll get much time for that. Most of my prices are the same as last year, only 1 drink has had to be put up but a few have also come down in price so even better value this season. Until next week I'm going to leave you with a little bit of Wales to watch, Newport, where the European team won the Ryder Cup. Enjoy.

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