Summer Journal 2012, September 3

I don't know if I will do another blog tomorrow.  Probably I will in the morning.  We haven't heard from Kyros and Petra yet.  We had a wonderful last swim of the summer.  We were the only ones in the sea, the only car by the beach, and the last customers at Milos.  One great surprise was that young Demetri came by.  When I met him as a tiny boy, you cannot imagine how poor his family was.  They  had a dirt packed floor in their home, chickens running around the place- my heartache when I saw how on the edge he lived with his parents and brother and sister.  Today he told us that he is starting a bakery/sweets shop in December, and his baby sister Katerina will study international law. He told me he has kept the pictures I took of them as children.  It was a wonderful reunion with him.  He has studied confectionary art in Thessaloniki.  Some good news in a country of economic crisis.

Our little Peugot -last car on the beach

 

Summer's end

 

Telling Via Goodbye at Milos

 

Good news from Demetri

 

 

Catching Up with Helena

 

Last Swim of 2012

 

Leaving the Sea

 

 

Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie

 

 

Ierissos is over-populated with stray dogs who hang out at each and every restaurant.  People who come here always want to rescue them or suggest that we take them to our house.  Won't work.  What would they do after tomorrow?  Chase coyotes I guess.

 

It's been a fabulous summer.