Sunday started this week with an invitation to the Red Cross Fund Raising Event held by our friends Bob and Ev at their lovely house. We had a chance to take a look round the three or four wide terraces of their garden, look down from the height of their village over the sea and look longingly at the swimming pool because it looked inviting on a very hot day.
This annual event known unofficially as a “Cake Fest” had us sampling all the home made cakes which had arrived on the day and enjoying watching the Greek Red Cross Volunteers tuck in to enormous platefuls of assorted goodies.
It was a good chance to catch up with lots of friends and after this we made our way to Camping Elizabeth – which, before our discovery of Panormo Beach – was one of our favourite places because it reminds us so much of the Greece we remember back in the late 60s/early 70s … just sun, beach and sand with very simple amenities.
As the weather had turned so much warmer, we made the decision to start our daily swim routine and duly managed to do this on Sunday and Monday! However, the rest of the week veered wildly out of our control.
On Tuesday, we met with friends who used to live in Crete and were visiting to catch up with all their long lost friends and had a very pleasant lunch after Art Class had finished. This art course section has moved on to landscapes and here is the view of Kastellos that I was painting all morning.
One of our friends, Anne invited me on a Girls Day Out on Thursday and we met up and left in her car for Vamos. We had a lovely walk around a beautiful monastery which had some very interesting architecture (I would love to take my paintbox) and then off to … Jon, The English Butcher. What a busy hub this is and he was busy all day serving ex-pat customers with sausages, and familiar British cuts of meat, cheddar cheese, home cured ham, bacon and various meat pies and pasties (all of which would be otherwise unobtainable!) Then, feeling more than a bit hungry, we set off for a magical mystery tour to the Octopus Restaurant at the Blue Lagoon.
The weather had been a little bit threatening all day but we drove through different and spectacular mountain scenery. In particular, the plant life seems to be specific to this tiny area with bright red and orange perfectly rounded pin cushions of bushes simply covering the hillside down to a tiny hidden cove. At the bottom was a charming little spot with the brightest light turquoise water I have ever seen.
Greetings from the Blue Lagoon - yes it is really this colour!
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