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WIDE AWAKE

It has been a long few days- though I have forgotten as much as I remember. My first flight was delayed by 45 minutes and the second one by four hours. No explanation supplied.

Never mind. My recent experience of air travel is frequently fraught with delays or maybe it is just American Airlines. I don’t know. I go into a purgatory of expressionless waiting. The biggest problem is having enough reading material.

However when we hit Greece all our connections went smoothly except possibly for the ferry which had not updated its timetable but they offered to mind our luggage while we went to town for the intervening two hours. Figuring that there was a squad of tough coast guards armed and ready for an invasion of immigrant Turks with boats moored next to the ferry we decided the bags would be safe.

The ferry was swift, followed by a terrifying drive in our tiny rented Suzuki through the ever narrowing streets of the Port city of Kalymnos – I have forgotten its name but ah well – to our little bijou newly built apartment clinging to the side of a mountain with a plunge pool and big doors with other little apartments with pools and big doors clinging to the side of The mountain.

The driveway was so steep and our luggage of ropes and metal climbing thingies was so heavy ( it was not me – I was not heavy ) that the little overburdened red Suzuki squealed and shuddered all the way up the mountain.

Unlike the little red Suzuki I decided I was not venturing back down the wretched mountain for a few days – my nerves had come to the end of their tethers and were threatening to spit their knots.

So I took it upon myself to lounge about the pool while the thirty- somethings who I still refer to as The Children went back out in the little red Suzuki to buy supplies.

Today will be more of the same. We have more people coming today to join us clinging to the mountainside.

But I will not be driving- I continue to lounge with books.

The fun begins.

Love Celi

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  4. Harrowing car rides – Paris France – UGH!!! Ah to be on a mountain where you have been in the plains for so many months! Enjoy your time! What exotic foods will be on the table I wonder? Did you take the cast iron pan as usual?

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  5. Looks beautiful! Wishing you a very relaxing time. I’m always amazed at how quickly you transition out of farming and chore-list mode into full on relaxed! Wishing you a wonderful time!

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  6. You have to go out and find the best feta on the island!
    I made the mistake of driving up the side of a quarry on Corfu, in search of an abandoned village (Old Perithia) and castle. The road was treacherous, all lumps of marble in an ancient Fiat and I nearly turned back several times, but I’m so glad I didn’t. The village, castle and views were amazing. There was even a tiny restaurant bar where the last couple of residents lived. It was once on a thriving route through the island that got bypassed with a new road.

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  7. If anybody deserves to lounge with a book for days on end, it is you! Enjoy. And I can’t figure out what that orange thing is, either. I’m going with a drone.

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  8. I believe you have made the correct decision. I wouldn’t move until compelled to by the return airline ticket.

    Is that drone you took a pic of belong to your group or is it someone poking their camera into your space?

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  10. WOWIE!!! For me, I’d do just what you’re doing…relax or go walking. Mountain climbing is on my personal ‘forbidden to do’ list. When will you be doing that treacherous treat? I’d ride in the Suzuki before I ‘d even consider the other! Have fun an be careful, brave lady!

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