Merlin
Joined: 26 Sep 2006
Posts: 557
Location: Dearbyshire, England
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 Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject: Only yesterday! |
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Well, what an anti climax to a special week or two, we arrived into a wet Manchester last night and having to resort to fish and chips on the way home, home sweet home.
Julie actually cried on the Monday night and all for not coming home, don’t get me wrong she’s no stranger to not coming home and extending her holiday for several weeks but the emotions experienced this trip were so immense we fell in love with our special place all over again. You know how we all take things for granted.
There was a special surprise birthday party where we met many old friends and we sat at the none English speaking end of the table mostly Greek, Greek Albanians and French, we managed to catch Margarita on her last day before returning to NY for her Chemo Therapy and celebrate the chance meeting by drinking a nice bottle of 1967 port that she smuggled to Greece when she jumped ship. She still has one more bottle that we will drink at a table in the shallow water on her return but this time with some real smelly English cheese not the fried feta we made do with. I have found a new love in fried cheese!
We felt so sad on the Wednesday as we waved her goodbye as she sailed into the distance bound for Athens and months of treatment. God Bless,
There were barbeques and drunken night that I can not even remember but some how we never strayed far from the small street we now call home, afternoons we were often found sitting on the harbour with some Gavros, beetroot and garlic dips as all the boats had gone for the day leaving the harbour to resemble a winter setting with clear views as many of the crowds were also on the beaches topping up there tans.
I’m sure Magda and her team will be also please to see me go but she knows she has reserved a very special place in our hearts for her help and support; I will enlighten you all more as to the generosity of this woman later but we did have a laugh when we both discovered that Patsy wasn’t the women we thought she was we both had her confused with someone else.
Over the last 2 weeks I somehow became a child again free from the pressures of every day life. A place where time didn’t matter as I played with the hose pipe in the street pretending to water the plants but really making a flood for ALEX to clean up latter, we playing practical jokes on our neighbours and indulging in home made sweets with passers by. One evening we sat with the musicians as a treat for being good or they simply needed an extra table but this allowed us to help ourselves to the wine as if it were our own.
The night of the thunder storm that some how caught so many unawares we handed out our umbrellas to elderly passers only asking them to return them as soon as possible and over the next few days they all came back the following morning there was speculation and great debate as to what the weather was going to do, this did not go without notice and a new weather man was born I know he reads my posts. There was even an earth quake but we managed to sleep through it only being briefly disturbed by the ringing of church bells at an unearthly hour, pranksters or the shaking of the tower from the tremors who knows.
There is also a new celebrity that actually lives and works on the Island, Uncle Scrooge you should look out for his tee shirts and again more on this subject latter…I also had the pleasure met Darrell and his lovely family along with Skiathos Lad at the Oasis forgetting that they have to work ? Sorry guys.
But as the final days and then hours approached we began to make that move and the reality set in, first to the Airport for our check-in and then back to the small streets for one last look before parking our car and away. This time was no different to others we were last to clear customs and last on the aircraft, we even made time to tease our freind Dimitrie about not getting on as we strolled across the tarmac purposely wandering to the wrong entrance? I suppose he’s getting used to us now but seriously I wish I had never left.
Skiathos may be many things to many people but for me it’s the friends we have come to know and love over the years.
Today its overcast in more ways that you can imagine and the antics of the last few weeks seem a lifetime away but we are already wishing our lives away until the next time.
Julie & Arthur
Last edited by Merlin on Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:23 am; edited 2 times in total |
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