Friday, 23 August 2024

Poros Pictures


Sign on this comfy bench outside a touristy dress shop on the waterfront reads
'For exclusive clients only'
Well, up Your nose with a rubber hose!

Keep your distance peasants.  It's only for the snooty rich bottoms that are cruising on one of the gin palaces tied up opposite.




A more inviting corner
Table and chairs set up outside the butcher's shop in the back street near the Police Station


Spiro and Zoi's Butchers Shop



Poros Police car going up the very narrow backstreet to it's parking spot tucked away in a corner beneath a flight of steps.
Yes, it is one way



Poros Police Station on the left
They've even got a cell!


19 comments:

  1. Ha, up your nose with a great big rubber 'ose...P used to say that a lot!
    I would have sat on that snooty-bum seat and feigned ignorance 😁

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    1. One of my favourite sayings! Along with ye gods and little fishes

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    1. I don't know whether they're serious or just joking. I'm not shopping or stopping there to find out

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  3. The snobs can keep their posh seat. I think the butcher's corner looks so much more inviting and friendly :)

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    1. The butcher is always friendly and wouldn't mind at all to share his outside corner

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  4. Oh I can’t stand snobbery.
    Even if I could afford their products I wouldn’t soil the bottom of my shoes going in there.
    I’d much rather stay with the general populace

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    1. I was a bit surprised to see the sign on the seat. Are they serious? Like you, I'm not stopping to find out

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  5. In photo No 2, I am fascinated by the painted floor. I've seen painting around flagstones in Greece, but this seems just decorative.

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    1. Often when sidewalks or yards are whitewashed at Easter they draw designs. Often it's just to represent false flagstones. They made this a bit more artistic. And it takes an artist to notice it. I didnt

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  6. It seems that every corner and every narrow street has a special charm on your island, even if there are places reserved for distinguished guests, it is yours all the time.

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    1. Exactly!! I love the narrow little side streets. I used to live up in the town and use these streets and passages to get down to the harbour. I don't often get into the backstreets now

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  7. Is that the butcher's shop with the restaurant? I suspect not or you would have mentioned it. I'd never find it again but remember a tour of such streets on our way to it.

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    1. That taverns is not far away, just up past the Police station a bit. The butchers shop closed down years ago. They have 9 children who run the taverna now.

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  8. I think the shopping sign was somebody muddled with the English language. Great back streets. I like being able to take a car to as near to your door as possible.

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  9. ha. I haven't heard that expression in years, we use to add onto it "even further with a hamburger"

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