A quiet start to the week

 Monday 31st October - Hora and Livadi

The good news is my friend from Sifnos got the ferry and is probably on her way to the UK on a plane now. It’s a long journey and unless you get your timing exact, you have to have a stop over in Piraeus. Thankfully I will not have to make that journey until the Spring. I had a nice chat with our neighbours last night, they have been keeping an eye on the house, and making sure it’s ready. 

I decided to do another one of my reservoir walks, although this one you don’t really see it. You head down the track to our familiar church, Flevariatisa and this time turning right when you get to it. Here in the distance I saw two  cars which had stopped, the occupants were having a chat. I thought I recognised one of the vehicles and soon that car went past me and it had one of the guys, I have seen at Marinos and said hello, I got a wave. 

The track doesn’t go all the way to Livadi but it rejoins the switch back road from Hora, that the bus takes, about half way down. Before then you have lovely views of Hora as you walk around the mountain and below, the path that I take on one of my other walks. There are lots of black pipes around here, feeding the water from the reservoir to various holding tanks on farms. The reservoir is looking very empty now. I carried on down the road to Livadi. 

I went to Gran’s as I wanted to see Chris to ask him about cars. My luck was in, as I got there, he was walking in too. He greeted me as Mr Paul as usual. He said getting a cheap banger is not easy. He thought the best way was to go to Athens. It might be worth chatting to the garage up here, or his former employee Mr Blue Bird, who is himself is  in Athens. The cafe had one of my favourite pies, I had it with a cold coffee and sat on one of the benches on the harbour concrete apron, listening to chapter four of the Greek language course. 

In the front of the bank, is one of those trees that survive in the beach sand. The Greeks seem to trim these back, pollarding it’s called, at this time of year. The interesting thing is the people doing it were the two people who catch the ropes when the ferries berth here. Greeks do have multiple jobs to make ends meet!

I walked back up the steps, a lady shouted out Bravo to me, she is usually outside her house with her husband, tinning things in their garden at weekends She is thanking me about the litter picking I suspect. 

This afternoon I have been sunning myself, on the roof, I am having a frozen meal tonight. I did not go to Vasileas place last night, but I will tonight I think. 

I have done some Guitar as well, that’s going ok, I am going to pay my rent and email the landlord about meeting up, I plan to go to the  Medical  Centre tomorrow about this  funny eyelid spot, which is a bit like a serbeaous cyst that I have had elsewhere on my body. This one is not big, but it’s getting bigger. The NHS told me they don’t treat it, it’s seen as a cosmetic problem. Let’s see what the Greeks say!