skiathos lad
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Location: skiathos
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 Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:22 am Post subject: SILLY ME (Inside a Greeks lung)-PART 1 |
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Well hello everyone.
It’s been a while since the last time I wrote on this here board and it’s so much staff I don’t know were to start.
Watching the rugby final on my closed dark bar and meeting another English resident,
(I can’t skip writing about his lovely lady and child or the beautiful house they bought; I hope he will remember me as the house guest who leveled his washing machine)
Spending nice times with winder visitors Eleanor and Paul, (my god, by far the best voice harmonies ever) you guys can stop having sex anymore just sing together!!!)Paul, I promise we will try fishing again on an easier day and with a better boat)
Waiting and waiting for some money to arrive (still hasn’t come).
In general just relaxing from a long, hard working summer.
In Greece, our children are the luckiest in the world:
Holidays every year:
-Christmas 2 weeks
-Easter 2 weeks
-summer 10th of June until 15th of September
This year we took off at December 19 and returned home Jan 8th.
In Athens we own property and always visit during holidays so kids can spend time with the grandparents, uncles, cousins and all the other half part of our family that live there.
This year I wanted to do something special: visit the Athens music hall theater.
We try hard every year to go to at least one place I feel the kids will remember so , over the years, we have visited a various no of museums and acropolis, zoo, the planetarium etch.
Next year I plan to visit the new Athens museum and the new aquarium, both recently done and both amongst the world greatest.
We managed to buy seats(100 EUROS ADULTS, 50 FOR KIDS EACH), and I were very impressed watching the Chinese acrobats perform impossible deeds on a magical array of lights.
The days were passing by and it felt like I was in the middle of a snow blizzard but watching it all from inside my very warm and comfy car!
We visited every big mall in the town and we got all the late gadgets on deals from phone companies, a nokia n-95 8 giga, and a mio gps with phonetic directions in Greek and maps (what a useful device!)(My dad, although very happy getting my last years mobile, still don’t believe I got these devises for free from offers either from credit cards, or mobile company contracts.)
It’s been slow but in Greece has finally come the American dream of the great mall shopping centers
So we did shopping, bowling, seen movies, lunching, met friends, and crowd watching, with easy free parking, all in a breath.
During all these activities I had a stormy thought.
Take the family and visit Delphi and Arahova, at Parnassus mountain ski resort.
I used to have frequent visits there some years back, till age, responsibilities, and the ever present Greek inflation, made me give up one of my favorites.
The success of my spontaneous idea relied upon that I could go to most expensive Greek ski resort 2-3 days before the crowds.
In Greece shops are open till December the 24th and we left Athens on the 21.
To cut it short it was a great idea since, first the weather were real good- sunny- and the snow conditions perfect! Many years of poor trade and unreal development: I stood speechless at a valley 7-8 kilo up the mountain after arahova and counted perhaps 5000 houses, hotels, taverns, gas stations and shops all built in the last 15 years. The latest made me able to get a room for 4 at one of the best hotels (heated pool, Jacuzzi) including breakfast, for 110 euros per night witch price was a steal considering the period and all the great staff at breakfast.
A second very pleasant surprise was the new prices for the lifts at 34 euros for the 4 of us and we got back 12 euros at the end of the day when we returned the new electronic cards. So at 22 euros for 2 adults and 2 kids we must be even cheaper than Bulgaria!!!
I compare kelaria and fterolakas the 2 resorts in the top of the mountain as little Switzerland and truly it has some very beautiful cornerstones.
Without large crowds and with perfect sun we spend 3 very tiresome days.
You see I had to teach my family and knowing that with a professional teacher all you learn on day 1 is to get up from down, and you get very tired cause they make you walk uphill for 25 meters which you ski down from in 4 seconds flat, then walk uphill again……… after day one all a beginner wants is to dye.
I am a believer of the: through a learner to the deep end of the pool for the first time, so I took all of them at the top of the cliffs on the most difficult pists at kelaria.
The lack of knowledge and so the lack of fear worked well with my youngsters witch soon got skiing extremely well, but alas I was to pay for my silliness by my wife’s mulish refusal to do such a crazy thing.
All she could do was to call me some funny names and sit down to where she had fallen from the chair lift causing a major havoc to all other arrivals……..
And then my punishment came on the form of a very good looking young ski instructor assistant doctor… who came to the rescue.
I had to go with the kids and I left her with him.
When we met again after a long time at the cafeteria she didn’t complain much to my dislike.
She had gotten a free experts lesson, but the bastard had tried for a secret rendezvous and to get her cell no.
She was very proud of her new skiing skills, but me miserable she had put her trust on another man.
I made sure we never came back there so the next days we went to the 2nd resort: fterolakas.
Very few people and lovely quiet pists with spectacular views (all the way down to the sea), pists that run through forests, and good snow, what more can a man ask for?
more to come soon....................... |
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