Chloe spent 16 days with us. She arrived on the bus feeling filthy and with a ton of washing after the Outlook Festival (drum and bass we are told!) in Croatia and three nights on ferry decks coming down from Venice. She was not at all unhappy to be fed and given a comfortable bed! The weather sarted well and we were all in the sea that day, but Setember is an unpredictable month and we did suffer some wind, cloud and even a little rain,
Chloe also arrived with plans for activities - so one one day she and Bob rode to Akti Krios (the furthest beach in the Elefonisis direction) and on another they walked the "Anidri Triangle" - up the road to the schoolhouse
kafenion, down the gorge with its difficult boulders and drops, bathing at the beach and back along the coastal path. Up at the
kafenion they met Stephanie (married last year - see blog) who invited us all to her daughter's birthday party later in the week:- a lovely occasion in the evening of a very windy day, and the precursor of a very late night for Chloe, who went out clubbing with Anastasia!
On our final Friday we took a taxi up to th eother (higher) mountain village of note. Earlier trips to Azogires have been described here before. This time we had with us Chloe - an Azogires virgin, and Sean - the complete opposte:- here on holiday, but an Azogires resident in 1976! With his assistence we explored a bit further - including a visit to St Theodor's chapel, where - in an area now designated for non-Orthodox burials - we saw the tomb of Andy - a "character" much loved over the years, whom we had met for the first time the month before his death. This led to Sean asking Lucky at the Alpha if he still had a copy of the "Paleochora Chronic". (One edition, hand-written 1976), and we spent a long time laughing at that. A great way to spend a wet (yes, wet!) day.
Chloe left on Sunday evening, having grabbed some beach time in windy conditions. We put her on the 6.15 bus with a rather tight schedule for getting to the airport before Easyjet check-in closed. She managed that alright, but there was a near 5 hour delay in departure and she arrived at Gatwick at 4.23 am. We were in the doghouse again for putting her on a cheapskate airline, but she enjoyed her stay and was refreshed ready for final year at Brighton. We hunkered down to do pre-autumn migration cleaning!
Chloe spent 16 days with us. She arrived on the bus feeling filthy and with a ton of washing after the Outlook Festival (drum and bass we are told!) in Croatia and three nights on ferry decks coming down from Venice. She was not at all unhappy to be fed and given a comfortable bed! The weather sarted well and we were all in the sea that day, but Setember is an unpredictable month and we did suffer some wind, cloud and even a little rain, 
Chloe also arrived with plans for activities - so one one day she and Bob rode to Akti Krios (the furthest beach in the Elefonisis direction) and on another they walked the "Anidri Triangle" - up the road to the schoolhouse kafenion, down the gorge with its difficult boulders and drops, bathing at the beach and back along the coastal path. Up at the kafenion they met Stephanie (married last year - see blog) who invited us all to her daughter's birthday party later in the week:- a lovely occasion in the evening of a very windy day, and the precursor of a very late night for Chloe, who went out clubbing with Anastasia!
On our final Friday we took a taxi up to th eother (higher) mountain village of note. Earlier trips to Azogires have been described here before. This time we had with us Chloe - an Azogires virgin, and Sean - the complete opposte:- here on holiday, but an Azogires resident in 1976! With his assistence we explored a bit further - including a visit to St Theodor's chapel, where - in an area now designated for non-Orthodox burials - we saw the tomb of Andy - a "character" much loved over the years, whom we had met for the first time the month before his death. This led to Sean asking Lucky at the Alpha if he still had a copy of the "Paleochora Chronic". (One edition, hand-written 1976), and we spent a long time laughing at that. A great way to spend a wet (yes, wet!) day.
Chloe left on Sunday evening, having grabbed some beach time in windy conditions. We put her on the 6.15 bus with a rather tight schedule for getting to the airport before Easyjet check-in closed. She managed that alright, but there was a near 5 hour delay in departure and she arrived at Gatwick at 4.23 am. We were in the doghouse again for putting her on a cheapskate airline, but she enjoyed her stay and was refreshed ready for final year at Brighton. We hunkered down to do pre-autumn migration cleaning!