1. Weather
Of late there have been incidents of heavy rain around the middle of the month. This year there was none - even when threatened in the meteo - and there were heavy black clouds over the mountains. In fact until this week the main climatic features have been three day long heatwaves and then very strong winds and rough sea. There were many days that were a delight on the beach, even if it got chilly late in the afternoon. But we have learnt over the years that in late September:
You never know when you are having your last swim of the season in the sea!"
It looks as if it will turn out to have been on Thursday 28th! Ruth only enjoyed the latter half of the afternoon, but it was bliss :- with a "millpond" sea. Bob had been there all day and had several swimming interludes. Then - as well-presaged - came Friday and Saturday, which saw winds up to Force 6 Beaufort and very cloudy skies, The beaches remained deserted. (Greyrocks collected and deposited for storage their sunbeds yesterday from a deserted beach!) As it happened we had enough end-of-season tasks to take our minds off it!
The plan had been to have a sunset leaving supper for ten at the cantina on the Friday, but it slowly became clear that this wasn't going to be a good idea! (Cold, damp, a rocky beach to be negotiated in the dark and the sea lashing well past the normal extent!) So we changed venue and booked a table at the Porto Fino, cautiously requesting to be inside. That was lucky:- the evening was foul and half the village was after an inside place to eat!
Today we start the exodus and may - just - get some beach time in Chania before the evening ferry, Watch this space!
2. Last Suppers and so on
We leave on a high in terms of food! After the final teetotal dinner at home we worked our way through favourites: like succulent steaks at the Crocodile or soup and pork at Tassos, and then abandoned the normal Thursday abstemiousness
in favour of lamb on the spit at "The Brothers". We were there early and on arrival Adonis told us we were lucky as every portion had been pre-booked by the previous evening! It was perfect and we were pleased we had taken our own Tesco Mint Jelly as an accompaniment. We do this discreetly as this is frowned upon by the family ("Why are you putting jam on our beautiful meat?") We had just finished when Nick and Claire approached with friends ready for their lamb, so we offered them the jar rather than binning it. This caused peals of laughter; but we think they felt lucky too!
Wednesday was our last chance for music at Monica's, and as it will be closed from next month it was important to us, but it with inclement weather, smoking and noisy Austrians we weren't sure it would be a good experience. It was World Tourism Day and there was video of Cretan dancing outside the Town Hall along with folk queuing for the free food, so when we got to Monica's we found that Mats ans Yianni were playing inside, where it was warm, devoid of gabblers and (in theory) smoke-free. We had a great time and amongst the numbers were two from Loudon Wainwright III!
3. A winning streak
Ruth ha been playing Scrabble and cards every week trough the season, and until late September had never won a game! Olga is Scrabble genius and usually wipes the floor with the rest of us, but somehow Ruth won one of the two games in two consecutive weeks. In part this was owing to Olga's "Irritable Vowel Syndrome" bad luck, but hey!
This Thursday in the final game of the season Ruth had the lousy luck, trying to make the first play with: AAAUJZV, and it went down hill from there!
In the penultimate game of predictive whist she also had her only victory and has the score sheet to prove it!
Well, that's Summer 2017 gone! Enjoy the song!
The plan had been to have a sunset leaving supper for ten at the cantina on the Friday, but it slowly became clear that this wasn't going to be a good idea! (Cold, damp, a rocky beach to be negotiated in the dark and the sea lashing well past the normal extent!) So we changed venue and booked a table at the Porto Fino, cautiously requesting to be inside. That was lucky:- the evening was foul and half the village was after an inside place to eat!
Today we start the exodus and may - just - get some beach time in Chania before the evening ferry, Watch this space!
2. Last Suppers and so on
We leave on a high in terms of food! After the final teetotal dinner at home we worked our way through favourites: like succulent steaks at the Crocodile or soup and pork at Tassos, and then abandoned the normal Thursday abstemiousness in favour of lamb on the spit at "The Brothers". We were there early and on arrival Adonis told us we were lucky as every portion had been pre-booked by the previous evening! It was perfect and we were pleased we had taken our own Tesco Mint Jelly as an accompaniment. We do this discreetly as this is frowned upon by the family ("Why are you putting jam on our beautiful meat?") We had just finished when Nick and Claire approached with friends ready for their lamb, so we offered them the jar rather than binning it. This caused peals of laughter; but we think they felt lucky too!
Wednesday was our last chance for music at Monica's, and as it will be closed from next month it was important to us, but it with inclement weather, smoking and noisy Austrians we weren't sure it would be a good experience. It was World Tourism Day and there was video of Cretan dancing outside the Town Hall along with folk queuing for the free food, so when we got to Monica's we found that Mats ans Yianni were playing inside, where it was warm, devoid of gabblers and (in theory) smoke-free. We had a great time and amongst the numbers were two from Loudon Wainwright III!
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Ruth ha been playing Scrabble and cards every week trough the season, and until late September had never won a game! Olga is Scrabble genius and usually wipes the floor with the rest of us, but somehow Ruth won one of the two games in two consecutive weeks. In part this was owing to Olga's "Irritable Vowel Syndrome" bad luck, but hey!
This Thursday in the final game of the season Ruth had the lousy luck, trying to make the first play with: AAAUJZV, and it went down hill from there!
In the penultimate game of predictive whist she also had her only victory and has the score sheet to prove it!
Well, that's Summer 2017 gone! Enjoy the song!
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