Our visiting friends left us this morning, so now it is time to update our blog and keep you informed about our Greek Life, (which we still love by the way). The "season" seems to have finally started with the beach really filling up: people playing the beach racket ball game next to the small children digging in the sand and riding the waves on the plastic blow up toys. This all does make the beach glass collecting harder BUT I persevere.
On our return from Santorini, we set up base camp, (pictured above). We usually spend 4-5 hours there with intermittent swims , glass collection, reading, watching the waves, the village ducks, the boats and the passers by. We usually do the morning shift, dismantling base camp and returning home by 2PM allowing us to miss most of the afternoon hubbub.
Today our little farm is "quiet", no neighbours on either side, but the crickets are fairly constant, along with the bird that has become for me the sound of Greece: whowoohoot -whowoohoot-whowoohoot (who is that bird?), the waves in the distance rolling the rocks together sounding like billiard balls hitting each other, and the welcome wind which sometimes howls setting the wind chime off and keeping us happily cooler. Like Altar, our dog , we have come to recognize the sound of particular vehicles coming home especially the funny, little truck that Ulie and Yorgos have. Today , being Tuesday it is Gyros take out day so we will be getting our 2 Euro dinner, usually two each, from the restaurant window in town and doing some grocery shopping, tomorrow we will probably do laundry. So as you can see life is pretty exciting here!
But last week we had some excellent adventures with Katie and Patty, along with fun, surprises and some pretty amazing scrabble games. Please stay tuned for the next posting.......
1 comment:
Really nice photos...induces daydreams at my desk...
BTW, just got postcard #4 from Amorgos today - Thanks!
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