Away

Agia Marina tou Naftikou

 or in English our Navy holiday resort. We are here.

Hooray...I think

A long 4 hour drive was uneventful.  Traffic minimal

And we arrived at our room to find this....

I dragged 6 heavy bags, pillows, sheets, towels, clothes, shoes, books up to the 2 floor, via the lift, to find a broken lock 

The room they reassigned us was on the ground floor of the next door building

Ye gods and little fishes

While K went to get the key for the other room I dragged all the bags back down and reloaded the car

It was a long day before we got settled

But worth it

After a meal in the restaurant we sat on the balcony and opened a bottle of 2023 red

And listened to the crickets, the soft sound of distant  voices and the  repeating call of the scops owl

It's my idea of peace to sit on the balcony and enjoy the night sounds and watch the lights of planes descending into Athens airport

The resort itself is descending into disrepair 

The grass uncut, the cafeteria with despicable coffee

Not what it used to be

The long grass reminded me of paspalum, grasses with long sticky fronds, which grow in the warm summer in wild unmown  gardens in NZ

The first time I'd thought of that stuff in many years