Future vegetable plot?

 

I woke up this morning in a tumble of a sheet and blanket. I have been told I twitch like someone who is being electrocuted, and the mess of the bedding made me think that happened last night. But as I came round I had a lightbulb moment about that little patch of land I cleared yesterday. Small patch of land, unused, sheltered with its own water supply… Bingo! Could I use it to grow stuff? Certainly! How to go about getting permission to do so? That might be the tricky bit. 

In Livadi there is another local government organisation, It’s  to do with land registry. On my journey into Livadi today, I popped in and see if any of them speak any English. they did and after a couple of attempts I managed to convey my intentions on this little patch of land. They are going through a process of land registration, I bet that’s going to be fun. Anyway they had a photo of the area where the land should be, but we could not identify my little patch. To be honest I don’t really think anyone is going to even see what I am doing or care, the road runs a couple of metres above the plot. What they suggested was I chat to the the land owners either side and/or take another photo of the plot and go and see them again.  Here is a photo of it.

I went to the haulage company to the right of the land, saw an employee, he said he just worked here, and the manager  is away until the new year. He said he didn’t think it was a good place to grow stuff, the nearness of the lorries, gasoline, litter (!) and it’s an industrial area. I can’t disagree with that, but I might wait until the new year, to see the manager . The other side is another haulage company but there is a little smallholding sandwiched between with a path that goes all the way back to another area with knee high clover and fennel. This looks like an abandoned smallholding. I did not bother the smallholding owners. 

Later on today I met up with the person whose cats were recently looked after, and we took off to the car park to Kalo Ambeli beach, then walked along the road by foot. I realised that I had left my phone at the house, it’s not a bad thing to do now and then to be honest, as long as you are accompanied! The road continues around the peninsula giving some wonderful views of the other islands in the distance, expertly pointed out to me, lovely coastline and Mountain views. We saw the fish farm, circular pens in the sea, then the lighthouse from afar. We then came to the local rubbish dump, which is not as smelly and horrible as you might think. Despite the locality, there were still more amazing views, you could see the horrible rocks, the lighthouse was trying to warn seafarers about. Unfortunately the road was closed at the stage, so we walked back. We then drove back to Livadakia where we heard the taverna, which is part of the Alexandros Resort was still open.

It surely was, and we sat out looking out onto the beach, accompanied by many cats, what a view and it’s December 14th! It was a lovely sunny day and we had a very nice lunch, and will go back soon. The cats were treated to some fish skin, they did not look malnourished to be honest, and it was a very nice pleasant meal.