{"id":2858,"date":"2011-10-25T21:14:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T21:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2012-04-26T11:24:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T11:24:02","slug":"together-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=2858","title":{"rendered":"Together Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three legged table outside Profitis Ilias - Spetses<\/p><\/div>\n

Sunday – a quiet day and my last in Kastelli for this trip. \u00a0All packed and ready\u00a0to catch the 1730 hours bus\u00a0to Hania … fortunately, I telephoned my friend Antonia and\u00a0learnt they were in Kastelli for the day so a ride home with them around 1800 hours.\u00a0 As always, very sad farewells with the family … would I be coming back?\u00a0 No, not this trip.<\/p>\n

After speaking with Costas, an early night for me – up at 0630 hours yesterday to make ready for my departure to Athens and on to Spetses.\u00a0 We had given some thought and discussion as\u00a0to whether or not the hydrofoils would be running on Monday, what with the strikes here in Greece,\u00a0however, the general concensus was that it would be okay and I gave it no more thought.\u00a0 Antonia delivered me to the bus station around\u00a00800 hours, arriving at the airport in Hania in good time for my 0935 hours Olympic Airways flight to Athens.\u00a0 Seated in 4B between two businessmen dressed in suits, the flight was a pleasant one.\u00a0 Read the airline magazine, served a large chocolate chip cookie with a drink and in no time, we touched down at Athens Airport.<\/p>\n

A long wait for our luggage to come through then walked outside\u00a0and purchased my ticket for the bus ride to the Port of Piraeus.\u00a0 Then, Costas telephoned with the news … NO hydrofoils operating!\u00a0 I should check to see if the trains were running to Corinth, which they were.\u00a0 Arrived in Corinth around 1300 hours.\u00a0 Took a taxi to the bus station.\u00a0 Next bus to Kranidi not until 1720 hours.\u00a0 Too late then for the last bus to Kosta on the mainland where I could take a water taxi to the island.\u00a0 So, no alternative but to take a long taxi ride\u00a0from Corinth to Kosta.\u00a0 One and a half hours duration, however, along a very scenic mainly oceanside road.\u00a0 I could pay by the clock or the driver would accept a flat rate of 100 Euro … I chose\u00a0the latter.\u00a0 Telephoned Costas\u00a0when I saw a sign 14 kilometres from Kosta.\u00a0 He came across from the island, arriving in Kosta within a minute of each other … wonderful to see him.\u00a0 By 1530 hours we were both back home on Spetses.<\/p>\n

Went out last night to Bar Spetsa … very quiet everywhere, the tourists have all but gone now that summer is over.\u00a0 A few familiar faces in the bar\u00a0and\u00a0it did not feel like I had ever been away from here … now with five weeks ahead when I do not have to move on anywhere – what a great feeling.\u00a0 I have had enough of travel and strikes for a while.\u00a0 Today we went out for lunch at Spetsiotiko – a bowl of Fasolada (bean soup) each, followed by half a kilo of babounakia (small red mullet) – possibly my favourite fish.\u00a0 A shared beer and the usual crusty bread – yummy!\u00a0 This afternoon, tiredness\u00a0consumed me\u00a0and so I have stayed at home tonight.\u00a0 Costas was to telephone me if our friends Raymond and Heather turned up at the bar and I would get ready and go down.\u00a0 It is just past midnight, I have not heard from him so it looks like I will be stopping in with the four cats keeping me company.<\/p>\n

Only another four nights\u00a0then Bar Spetsa will close for the season.\u00a0 From next week we can choose to eat out in the evening like normal people here, go for walks during the day or whatever.\u00a0 Five weeks to enjoy a real holiday – it is going to be like heaven!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday – a quiet day and my last in Kastelli for this trip. \u00a0All packed and ready\u00a0to catch the 1730 hours bus\u00a0to Hania … fortunately, I telephoned my friend Antonia and\u00a0learnt they were in Kastelli for the day so a ride home with them around 1800 hours.\u00a0 As always, very sad farewells with the family […]<\/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-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","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=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3192,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}