{"id":2275,"date":"2010-09-26T18:29:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2011-04-12T16:10:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T16:10:14","slug":"idyllic-lifestyle-kastelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=2275","title":{"rendered":"Idyllic Lifestyle – Kastelli"},"content":{"rendered":"
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View towards Rodopou peninsular from family home, Kastelli, Crete <\/p><\/div>\n

Yesterday’s exhaustion, bought on by my overnight sleepless ferry journey from Piraeus to Crete, has today left me, for which I am most grateful.\u00a0 Any thoughts I had of visiting Vanna and Roma last evening – there is always an open home policy in force there for family and friends to pop in on a Saturday night, to eat, drink, talk, laugh a lot and listen to music – well, I was much too tired and retired early around midnight.\u00a0 This morning I was woken by loud\u00a0shouting and much to my surprise, the time was 1045 hours\u00a0… I had slept well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It has been very quiet here\u00a0– with many of the younger family members now working and living in Hania and none returning to Kastelli this weekend.\u00a0 What I am really enjoying is the food, not that I have had food elsewhere that was disagreeable but rather – Katina quite simply prepares the very best from\u00a0the freshest of ingredients … food to die for!\u00a0 Yesterday\u00a0when asked what I would like for lunch I said “Mia Salata” (a salad) which made Katina laugh.\u00a0 She cooked Biftekia (meat rissoles) and made an amazing salad, the best I have enjoyed ever.\u00a0 Not just your basic Greek salad, it had tomato, cucumber, red onion, small black olives, pickled green peppers, chunks of potato, purslane and\u00a0fresh basil, tossed in an\u00a0unforgettable dressing.\u00a0 Today for lunch, Katina, Katerina (a grand daughter of hers) and I\u00a0had chicken in sauce with Hilopita (homemade noodles).\u00a0 Back in the days when I lived here, all the women in the family would come\u00a0together for an afternoon\u00a0and we would make copious amounts of Hilopita, enough to see us through the winter months.\u00a0 Recently, Katina on her own made 8\u00a0kilos of flour into Hilopita – no woman I know works harder than she does.\u00a0 At the moment we have green seedless grapes – so, so sweet and delicious!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of all the cats who were resident here in May, only one remains – the rest have perished as many do, one way or another they meet their deaths on the road or mysteriously die, their tiny bodies found in the garden.\u00a0 I suspect many are poisoned.\u00a0 There is, however, a new addition,\u00a0rescued from a rubbish bin in Hania by\u00a0Yani and this cat and\u00a0Billy the family dog love to play together.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When I moved on in May the goat was pregnant.\u00a0 Within days she had given birth to two kids – one died at birth, the other was eaten on 15 August, the day when all Greeks celebrate and commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today\u00a0after lunch I made my way down to\u00a0Kastelli beach which is not the most amazing beach in Greece but I love it.\u00a0 Kastelli sits in the bay between two peninsulars – Rodopou and Gramvoussa.\u00a0 The beach is somewhat stony, however, the sea is wonderful – still very warm once you are in it and the sun still has the ability to\u00a0burn, even though along with the crowds,\u00a0summer\u00a0has gone and\u00a0supposedly autumn should have arrived. \u00a0I will definitely return to the beach every day that I can, making the most of it\u00a0until I must move on … at the moment, I plan to do so next Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s exhaustion, bought on by my overnight sleepless ferry journey from Piraeus to Crete, has today left me, for which I am most grateful.\u00a0 Any thoughts I had of visiting Vanna and Roma last evening – there is always an open home policy in force there for family and friends to pop in on a […]<\/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-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","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=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2586,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}