Photo Show

 I don't have the energy to sit down and write a blog about how wonderful life is here and how lucky we all are to live on this island, every day a holiday.

The weekend crowds have returned and it's busy.  We now go down for coffee at 7.30 in the morning.  It's cooler.  We drink our regular coffee, get the bread, do some essential shopping and go home.  

K complains because I eat meat every day and he doesn't want meat.  Of course I offer to cook him something else but he says I don't cook with love when I don't eat it myself.

We have the end of summer blues.  Beside this, the house is upside down and filled with bags of everything including the kitchen sink.  We are going to our Navy resort at the end of the week.  The rooms have 2 beds and little else.  We bring everything else.  It's very cheap.  I am not complaining.  We are very lucky to be able to have a holiday.

  There are bags of pillows, bags of kitchen items that we could do without but would miss like a knife, fork and a coffee shaker to make ice coffee.  Why do we need a shaker when ice coffee is 2 minutes away at the cafeteria for 90 cents.  Who knows?  We might need it, along with a tin of nescafe a jar of sugar, a teaspoon and an ice cube tray.  You can see how 'stuff' adds up.

The wild goat herd is back eating the scrub in the paddock next door.  Great horned beasts.  I don't mind them, except for the rank smell, but our car is parked under an olive tree there.  How easy it would be for those great horny hooves to clamber up on to the top of the car to reach more of the olive tree branches.  I have to go out and yell at them and throw stones.  Always some drama.

Life here is much more expensive.  We are really beginning to notice it.  Shopping is kept to essentials.  Mainly.  Chicken wings are cheap so I get to eat my meat.  K has chick peas for 2 days.  I must have cooked them with love because he's eating them and they don't upset his stomach either.  Another problem.  He solves this one with glasses of raki.  The best stomach medecine he says.

We had some rain.  Not much but enough to dampen the earth and see the leaves on the citrus trees perk up.

Here are a few photos to lighten the mood.  I shouldn't complain about anything really.  We live on a Greek island where the sun shines every day and our world is happy and friendly and peaceful.

A kiwi tattoo.  Both my daughters have one on their ankle

The bougainvillia growing across the road up in our old neighbourhood.  It loved the hot summer

Cooked food?  They have to advertise it?  Elsewhere the food is raw I presume.  A wee sign which made me smile

 Poros town from across the strait