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<\/a>Balloon Man – Costas<\/p><\/div>\n
Saturday 3 November – first task of the day … take the cats to the Vet for their vaccinations.\u00a0 Costas’ first trip with Oliver, the biggest one alone in the cat cage.\u00a0 Second trip with Bob and Sydney … alas, the elusive, timid one Larissa was nowhere to be found.\u00a0 She would go the following morning.\u00a0 I cooked and we sat down to eat a substantial English breakfast of bacon and eggs, sausages, mushrooms, onions and tomatoes … fortification for the night ahead.<\/p>\n
Costas went to the Bar at the usual time of 2000 hours … I followed sometime before 2100 hours and wow – the Bar looked absolutely amazing.\u00a0 Ray and Heather, together with a couple of others had spent two hours decorating … all in silver, of course, as this was after all a celebration of the Silver Anniversary, 25 years of the business.\u00a0 Every bottle had been wrapped in tin foil, not to mention all other items they could find to treat in the same way, including the telephone and oranges in a bowl.\u00a0 Silver streamers covering the walls, the magic number of 25 displayed in many places, as well as on all the helium balloons perched just below the ceiling.\u00a0 Party hats, including a very special Happy Birthday Cake Hat for Costas.\u00a0 Laminated photographs from over the years displayed around the Bar, as well as a slide show on a small computer.\u00a0 A\u00a0tiny birthday cake for one,\u00a0complete with silver firecracker, which was lit out on the windowsill of the Bar.<\/p>\n
Familiar faces, too many to mention … some who have\u00a0frequented the Bar since it’s inception 25 years’ ago.\u00a0 The biggest surprise of the night\u00a0for Costas was when Andy and Lesley walked in –\u00a0two of his first customers\u00a0from the early days.\u00a0 They had just arrived from the UK and came especially to be with the Greek on this very special night.\u00a0 After all, it was his night and we were all there to enjoy the occasion with him … unbelievable!<\/p>\n
If I remember correctly, we made it home around 0430 hours.\u00a0 The following day was pretty much spent recovering from the night before then in the evening we went for a quiet meal at possibly my favourite taverna on the island – Paxni.\u00a0 Costas and Niki, the owners there, have a wonderful garden which you see as you walk up the driveway … the food is fresh, organic and simply to die for.\u00a0 Wonderful salads and meats cooked on charcoals … I had the lamb cutlets which were superb.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Decided we would go to Votsalo Bar for a couple of drinks before heading home.\u00a0 On the walk there we saw Andy and Lesley dining at Spetsiotiko … Costas invited them to join us after their meal.\u00a0 What a wonderful ending to one of the most amazing weekends I believe I have ever had in my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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