{"id":3174,"date":"2012-04-25T21:01:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T21:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2012-10-13T19:17:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T19:17:03","slug":"was-i-ever-away-from-spetses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=3174","title":{"rendered":"Was I Ever Away From Spetses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Red Poppies – Anzac Day on Spetses<\/p><\/div>\n

Arriving back here\u00a0on such a glorious sunny day with the island looking at its best … now two days on, it is difficult to believe that I was ever away from Spetses.\u00a0 Spent my last afternoon in Kastelli amidst loud, lively conversation – the young ones discussing politics and religion, two favourite topics amongst Greeks.\u00a0 Poor Anna, she was not well and retired upstairs very early.\u00a0 I hitched a ride with Antoni and Johanna, arriving at Antonia’s in Hania at 1900 hours.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Monday’s journey went without a hitch … bus to the airport Euro 2.30 (my taxi in when I arrived 10 days earlier was 10 times that at Euro 23).\u00a0 A good flight to Athens, then on the 0935 hours bus to Piraeus.\u00a0 Purchased my hydrofoil ticket, a Spanakopita (spinach pie) and a bottle of water then settled down to wait for our 1300 hours departure.\u00a0 Costas telephoned … could not sleep and so was going out and would be at the jetty to meet me.\u00a0Arrived on time at 1525 hours …\u00a0extremely happy to be here.\u00a0 A warm welcome from Costas and all four cats.\u00a0 Reintroduced myself that night to Bar Spetsa … back there again last evening\u00a0catching up with Ray and Heather – we passed a very pleasant evening.\u00a0 Yesterday was overcast and so, with no need to venture out, spent a relaxing day at home.\u00a0 Today has been absolutely glorious … a walk to the Old Harbour and returned zig-zagging my way through back streets, there are so many beautiful homes and gardens.\u00a0 This is a wealthy island … many of the children have gone on to education at top university’s around the world – there is no outward recognition here of the current crisis gripping the country.\u00a0 Enjoyed lunch out at Spetsiotiko … when we came home at 1400 hours, the thermometer in the garden was reading 30 degrees C!\u00a0The clock is now nearing midnight … a good night’s sleep needed so that tomorrow I can again enjoy the day – another walk and perhaps I will even manage my first efforts to sunbathe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arriving back here\u00a0on such a glorious sunny day with the island looking at its best … now two days on, it is difficult to believe that I was ever away from Spetses.\u00a0 Spent my last afternoon in Kastelli amidst loud, lively conversation – the young ones discussing politics and religion, two favourite topics amongst Greeks.\u00a0 […]<\/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-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","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=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3433,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/3433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}