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Rainy days and Mondays don't get me down. Not when I'm on holiday. It's a bit damp and I didn't pack an umbrella . Who cares
We wake late, make coffee in our room . Sit on the balcony with our hot coffee and watch a few braver souls dodge the downpour on the way to the cafeteria. Then it's just a matter of filling in time till 1pm when the restaurant opens. Everyone else is on the same timetable. It's better to wait till 2. At 1 o'clock there's a queue and a bustle and rush for trays and tables.
No need to rush. There's plenty of food for everyone. Also for the busload of children from war torn Ukraine. We see them on the beach and in a long orderly queue waiting for ice cream. They're amazingly well behaved
Cold wet sandy beach
Though incredibly there are a few swimmers
Just looking at that choppy grey water is quite enough for me
News flash....the only news I've heard in days
82 year old died after a violent fight over sun chairs with a 76 year old on an Athens beach.
I heard the oldies here discussing it in depth. The 82 yr old was once an officer in the Greek navy.
I thought he might be German. They're so possessive of their sunbeds
Another day
The sun is shining again. But we went into town and stopped at the Chinese Emporium and bought an umbrella, just in case.
We had to go shopping at Ks favourite electrical shop for a special spray. The car windows were left open during the storm and now one groans and sticks on its way up and down.
Fixed now he says!
I sat on the beach and finished my 3rd book. 2 whodunnits and a memoir of an English girl in a French village
Now I'm reading 'What am I Doing Here' by travel writer Bruce Chatwin . A personal selection of stories and travelogues. Published in 1989, the year he died, aged only 48.
His ashes are buried near a Byzantine church above the greek village of Kardamyli. His friend and Philhellene Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor lived out his latter years there in a house he had built nearby.
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oh good grief, people fighting over sun chairs? Why not take your own?
ReplyDeleteMediterranean tempers!
DeleteI really should read some Bruce Chatwin - I believe it was his writings that led friends of mine into a two year tour of South America. I'm really not planning any more long tours but to see the world of others - especially the world as it was a generation or two ago - is interesting. Have you read any of the travel writings of Samuel Longhorn Clemens (Mark Twain)? He even visited New Zealand - before the pink and white terraces got covered by a volcanic eruption. He's a very entertaining travel writer.
ReplyDeleteI have read Mark Twain Must look him up again. Especially about NZ
DeleteBeautiful photos. ❤️ And your blog header is stunning.
ReplyDeleteThat's the trouble with rain, swimmers don't want to get wet.
ReplyDeleteI got wet in the rain. That was enough
DeleteEveryday now I shake my head and wonder, what is wrong with people. Seriously. The children from the Ukraine could teach those adults a thing or two about manners.
ReplyDeleteI don’t mine the rain. Even on holidays. As long as it’s not days and days
The sun is shining again! Hooray. Yesterday I didn't swim but sat in the sun and read a book
DeleteI read one of Chatwin's books but didn't like it, very preachy stuff. He died of AIDS. I liked Fermor.though. I watched the story of the "helicoper pilot" and the English girl murdered in Athens. I had forgotten it was 5 years ago. How time flies. He was not a nice man. Enjoy your relaxation.
ReplyDeleteI had forgotten he died of Aids. It's a very long time since Ive read Chatwin. I need something to chew over after the whodunnits.
Delete5 years. I remember that murder. And now there's the poor girl in the suitcase
The suitcase murder and the Afghan. An interesting one for the Greeks police to solve.
DeleteGood to hear you are getting your reading in! Nice to read children from Ukraine are having a holiday and break from the war zone I am guessing. Sad to hear of fighting over sun chairs!
ReplyDeleteWe have had lots of rain in the past two weeks ~ apparently courtesy of the hurricane swirling around on the west coast of the US and Mexico. We are so thankful! I had a makeshift rain gauge and measured out over 4 inches of rain during that 2 week period. My lettuce and radishes are sprouting and looking good!
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