{"id":2255,"date":"2010-09-17T19:15:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T19:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2011-04-12T16:35:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T16:35:33","slug":"spetses-i-am-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=2255","title":{"rendered":"Spetses – I Am In Paradise!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spetses (See the Page "More Photos II" for more images - photos 1 - 20)<\/p><\/div>\n

When I arrived in Athens back in April, at that time, I felt I had a home in Greece on the island of Crete and I still do believe that, however, I now also feel I have a home here on the island of Spetses.\u00a0 Having realised my dream of travelling extensively throughout this wonderful country and with just 4 weeks’ remaining until I must leave for home, I am content and happy to be here on Spetses with Costas, knowing that I will have many magical memories of precious moments to take with me when I leave.<\/p>\n

When I returned to Spetses 9 days’ ago, my intention was to stay here for a week, then return to Crete to see the family and my\u00a0friends there, allowing myself a couple of weeks at the end to visit two or three of the Cycladic islands.\u00a0 However, I am not yet ready to move on and will be staying another week, i.e. until next Friday.\u00a0 That day I will leave for Piraeus, the port of Athens and take the overnight ferry to Hania in Crete, stay on Crete for 2 weeks, then back to Spetses for my final week in Greece – for now!<\/p>\n

Summer has left and Autumn has arrived.\u00a0 The days are filled with glorious sunshine and time spent at the beach is quite heavenly – the water is warm, salty and so\u00a0buoyant, I do not think you could drown in it even if you wanted to.\u00a0\u00a0The intense heat of the summer\u00a0sun has gone making sunbathing a lot more comfortable and pleasurable.\u00a0 In the evenings I wander on down to Bar Spetsa, often staying until closing and then\u00a0Costas and I go out somewhere together for a quiet drink – I am in heaven!\u00a0 Costas sometimes cooks but we often eat out too – English breakfast, pizza, traditional Greek, there are many very good restaurants and cafes.\u00a0 One day I decided his garden was badly in need of some attention – embarked on a labour of love, clearing weeds and so on – now you are able to see the beautiful stoned courtyard showing the date 1895 – the year the original part of the house was built.\u00a0\u00a0Back then it was probably a storehouse and the other rooms have been added on\u00a0since.<\/p>\n

I still hold firm my dream to one day retire to Greece.\u00a0 If I am on my own when that time comes, then I believe Crete is still the most likely place that I would settle.\u00a0\u00a0I do not believe Costas would ever leave Spetses and if we were to be together, I would equally be quite happy to settle here, however, I must leave time to take care of all.<\/p>\n

Today on my walk down to the beach (the same route I take to go to Bar Spetsa at night)\u00a0I decided to\u00a0take photographs along the way so that you all can visualise Spetses – the Paradise I have found!\u00a0 (Refer to the Page “More Photos II” images marked photos 1 – 20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I arrived in Athens back in April, at that time, I felt I had a home in Greece on the island of Crete and I still do believe that, however, I now also feel I have a home here on the island of Spetses.\u00a0 Having realised my dream of travelling extensively throughout this wonderful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}