Greek Island Pic Parade

 

More photos from a Greek island.

What life is all about.  

Coffee at a harbour café

People watching and setting our world to right 

The cafeterias are known, by us, according to the colour of their chairs.

This place used to be 'the blue chairs', next to 'green chairs' (which are no longer in favour). But they've changed the chairs this year.  Now we sit in these plain looking director chairs.  Last year they had big wicker chairs with fluffy blue cushions.

K doesn't mind. What he looks for is a good wine and meze.  They often have roast pork or grilled pancetta on the 'snack' menu. He's a happy blue-chairs customer. 

He's a very happy camper when he's coffee-ing with his grandchildren 

Nels, Pappou and........ Poppi

Moored along the quay was a catamaran flying a German flag but sporting a Maori name.  

Kia Ora ... Good Health

I went over and asked them if they had sailed from NZ.  The young lad laughed and said he'd been asked a similar question many times.  The catamaran had nothing to do with NZ or Maoris.  They were german and he said his mother liked the name and that was that.

A bicycle with a wooden frame parked outside one of the 'arty' shops in town.  

A Coco-Mat bike.

 It is partly electric but to start the motor you need to pedal like fury. And apparently the saddle is not bottom friendly. It's a little on the small side. 

Coco-mat is an environmentally friendly company which 'reflects the authenticity of the Mediterranean culture'. 

Along came a scooter covered in grass

Nylon grass

What would you have for your last Greek meal?

Paul's choice 

Okra with tomatoes and rooster with hilopites, Greek noodles 

We asked Sofia to have it freshly cooked for him.

 Our choice, greek salad and her speciality, grilled chicken pieces 

Sofia's Greek salad. 

Still the cheapest on the island at 7.50 euros

The olives have no stones in them! 

Wonderful. It's always a nuisance having to discreetly remove the olive stone from your mouth and find somewhere to deposit it. 

When you're at home, outside, you throw it over the fence or into the garden and hope it sprouts an olive tree

Saying goodbye to the family, sniff sniff

George turned up just in time to 'wave a hanky' as they sailed out into the bay and onwards into the Saronic Gulf and Piraeus Harbour 

It's not goodbye or arrivederci

Simply

Adio

Until next time