Sunday....the rest of the day

You can never tell in the morning how the day is going to pan out.

The warm autumn Sunday turned out even better than expected.  We didn't get to eat rice and rooster after all.....too bad!

We got a call from family and went down to the 'green chairs' for a 'coffee'.  Great surprise when we arrived.  Everyone else was already there and the table full of odd dishes and serving plates full of everyone's Sunday lunch.

The cafeteria provided the wine, a meze plate with olives, tomatoes, cheese and some bread and we tucked into an impromptu feast sitting beside the water on this warm and sunny day

Sunday lunch on the waterfront

Smile for the camera

Offal, chicken, pork chops, fried rice and potatoes

Plenty for everyone

And if that wasn't enough our friendly butcher brought over a plate of his Sunday dinner for us to sample as well

Being known, and liked, by (almost) everyone on this small island has some advantages. Or being related to them!

A free Sunday afternoon to sit and chat, and enjoy a glass of wine

Boys will be boys!

Some of us were in short sleeves, some of us were wearing jackets

and small boys stripped off for a dive into the harbour

The clean harbour waters  ( one hopes )

Elsewhere it was Armistice Day. There didn't appear to be any ceremonies here. Greece didn't come into  WW1  till 1917

I don't remember much about Armistice Day in days gone by.  It was my mother's birthday so we marked the day in a slightly different fashion.

I learnt a lot reading everyone's blog posts on this day of remembrance

The numbers of dead and wounded are staggering and the actrocities shocking

We shall remember them at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month.

And so we should