Time for another update.

Thursday June 23, 2011
It has been a good week the weather has been good, and we finished the first well on this rig last Saturday. We then had 3 days while they moved the rig to do some site seeing and relaxing.
On Sunday 2 other rigs were moving also, so 9 of us made our way down to Beach at Vlore. It is a beautiful city  situated on the Bay of Vlorë, an inlet on the Adriatic Sea. We spent the day at a place the guys called the tunnel Bar, Due to it location next to a stone tunnel (us Canadians are so crafty with our names for places). You can rent the lounge chairs for $1 and we did, although we ended up spending most of the day in the Bar section eating pizzas from a stone, wood fired pizza oven (and copious amounts of beer).

Right down the beach is also the President of Albania's summer home

All and all it was a good day.

The next couple days we stayed close to home, worked on my tan, then nursed my sunburn.

We also wandered the streets of Fier living off "Street Meat", (a donair like concoction  made by stuffing a flat bread with pork, and topping it with fries) and getting funny looks from the locals( a really common occurrence).

It is now Thursday, and we switching over to working nights to ease our transition back to Canadian hours (in less than a week). We have been back on the rig for a couple of nights and are currently waiting on casing so that we can pick up tools. I need to run as there is much work to be done, somebody has to hold down this chair.