Hello again,
I felt I must make note of the horrific flooding that has been happening here in England in the past few weeks. We are fine, with only having to alter our route over a couple weeks due to flooding in the main road. The queues were long but a small price to pay when you think of having your whole house thigh-high in water, complete with fish! As always, the cows are sitting down, with the odd few rebels still standing. They predict the weather will remain rainy until September......and the weather in Europe has forest fires due to excessive heat.
Go figure.
More photos as promised!
Drink that rum!!
Above - our boat ride with Alan, Sylv, Sue and Bruce.
Right - Roger and I at Epidaveros colluseum. I was squinting this day because I had gotten sun cream in my eye! Ouch!
Left - A photo taken by me! The island has a little chapel on it and is lit up at night - beautiful!
Left - with our new friends at the Romvi restaurant! L-R Katherine, Sylv, Moi, Roger, Sue, Bruce and Alan.
In the back streets of Hydra.
Happy Anniversary to my blog. It's been a year this month!
Greek photos!
I still haven't got the knack of posting in succession yet. If you read from bottom to top you will get my drift of things. We really had a great time. Met lots of new friends, ate, drank, swam and drank some more! We toured a couple islands, went on a bbq excursion boat to two different islands where we could swim and had the most fantastic Souvlaki kebobs, took a trip to Athens to see the Acropolys and then toured the old part of Athens - saw the most amazing bar with different colored bottles lit up from floor to ceiling (note what intrigues me - bars...), hired a boat with some of our new friends and toured around the islands ourselves for a couple hours, and took a boat trip down the Corinith Canal. We sat on the very front with our legs dangling over. We also saw ruins that were dated 3000 years B.C. - so amazing!! One of the greatest pleasures we had during our time there was finding the locals that we had taken photos of on our first and only visit there in 1980. They were so pleased that we cared enough to look them up. We were surprised that Tolon (they spell and pronounce it both ways: Tolo and Tolon - don't ask me why) hadn't changed that much since then, apart from a paved road, a few more shops (that actually added to the ambiance) and cars. This is a one street town where everyone knows everyone and are actually related in many instances. We enjoyed eating the local Tzatiki dip and Greek salad, among other favorites and raising our glass to toast "Ya Mas!" After two weeks in lovely heat, we arrived home to England, all tanned, to rain. What a surprise.
More photos to come, stay tuned!
Jill
And Right - Tolon at sunset.
Left - Socrates and us. We met him in 1980 and found him again to show him the pictures we took back then. He was so pleased he gave us a bottle of home made wine - yum!!
Left - here we are on a boat trip on the Corinth Canal. Look at the blue, blue, blue water!!
We took a boat to the island Hydra where Roger took this of me posing.
Also we found this lovely stairway with petals - very artistic!
And here's Dimitrie, the local fisherman and drunk, with his dog Bo-Bo.
Hotel Romvi where we stayed. If you look closely you can see our deck chairs on the end by the pier. Our room is middle floor 2nd from the left.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776"
My neice has posted this on her website. Hope she doesn't mind me nicking it, but it is so appropriate for the 4th of July (ok, a day or two late) - plus - it makes me homesick. She is very creative! You can visit her at:
http://sibtigre2.blogspot.com/. Her life is truly a zoo. :)
Jill
Happy Birthday America!
I miss you.
