19/08/23

[Maik]

Kef fire risk 19/08/23: High

Today’s bank rates:
1 €UR = £0.8821 GBP
1 €UR = $1.1244 USD
£1 GBP = 1.1337 €UR
$1 USD = 0.8894 €UR

Based on Alpha Bank exchange rates, these are widely used by exchange agencies in Greece.
Other banks likely to offer a different rate which may be marginally higher or lower.
Banks and foreign exchange offices normally charge standard 2% commission.
You may get a better rate changing your holiday money in advance at e.g the Post Office.
NB: some f-ex agencies advertise "No Commission".
Invariably, they deduct commission before they (don't) advertise the rate.
Foreign exchange offices are businesses, not charities.

Ten day weather forecast for Kefalonia:
This is an overall forecast, due to the mountainous terrain the weather can be very localised.
Updated forecast @ weather.com

Day, Date   Hi°/Lo°   Wind sp   Wet   Forecast
Sat 19/08   33°/22°   22 km/h   03%   Sunny
Sun 20/08   32°/24°   18 km/h   08%   Sunny
Mon 21/08   34°/24°   21 km/h   01%   Sunny
Tue 22/08   34°/24°   16 km/h   00%   Sunny
Wed 23/08   33°/23°   15 km/h   01%   Sunny
Thu 24/08   31°/22°   15 km/h   07%   Sunny
Fri 25/08   29°/22°   16 km/h   10%   Sunny
Sat 26/08   29°/21°   18 km/h   12%   Sunny
Sun 27/08   30°/21°   19 km/h   07%   Sunny
Mon 28/08   29°/21°   20 km/h   11%   Sunny

[Maik]

Body of an 83 y-o Greek male recovered yesterday afternoon from the Trokantero area of Itea, Fokida

Body of an 81 y-o Greek male recovered midday yesterday from the sea off Mavro Lithari, Anavyssos, Attica

Body of a 75 y-o Greek male recovered midday yesterday from Dervenion beach, Xylokasro, Corinthia

Body of a 68 y-o foreign male recovered miiday yesterday from the sea off Diaporos, Halkidiki

Body of a 42 y-o male missing since Tuesday recovered midday today from the sea between Chrysi Akti and Dryonissio beaches, Paros

[Maik]

Italian-flagged vessel with four foreign nationals on board escorted into Sami port after suffering minor damage off Koutsoupia beach. No injuries sustained and no marine pollution observed, boat confined to port until re-certified seaworthy.

[Maik]

Body of an unidentified female recovered yesterday afternoon from the sea off Amarynthos beach, southern Evian gulf

Body of a 77 y-o Greek male recovered yesterday evening from sea off Agrili beach, Trrifylia, Messinia

[Maik]

Ithaki coast guard yesterday performed an emergency transfer from Piso Aetos to Sami for a 60 y-o local in need of urgent medical attention

A 61 y-o foreign male was transported by ambulance to Ithaka medical centre yesterday afternoon and then on to Argostoli hospital after injuring his thumb while trying to moor a boat in Vathy port.

[Maik]

Lolita the orca dies after spending more than half a century in captivity

Lolita, an orca at the Miami Seaquarium that had been in captivity for more than 50 years before the park bowed to public pressure and planned to release it into the ocean, died on Friday.

Lolita retired from performing last spring, following a stipulation set forth by the US Department of Agriculture as part of the Miami Seaquarium’s fresh exhibitor’s license.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said in a statement published in the New York Times that Lolita had been kept in “the smallest, bleakest orca tank in the world, deprived of any semblance of a natural life” and had displayed “repetitive and abnormal behaviour,” indicating “severe psychological trauma”.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lolita-orca-miami-seaquarium-dies-b2395820.html

[Maik]

Police searching for person who tortured horse to death

Police in the town of Halkida, in Evia, was searching on Saturday for the person who tortured to death a horse that was found lying in a rural street by passers by on Friday.

Officers were alerted by a phone call from citizens who saw the animal on Gorgopotamou street, in the area Haravgi.

The perpetrator or perpetrators had put a chain and rope around the horse’s mouth and neck and held it tied to a power pole. There were feces and a blood next to the animal’s body.

https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1218089/police-searching-for-person-who-tortured-horse-to-death/

[Maik]

Bush fire earlier today in Lakithra brought under control and extinguished quite quickly, heard the fire at Akrotiri, Zakynthos is also contained.