Thursday, June 23, 2011—Paleohora, Crete, Greece
It’s about nine-thirty in the morning and the wind’s still blasting thru Paleohora. I’m sitting in the courtyard/garden of the place I’m sating at relatively sheltered from it all—the occasional swirling mass of detached leaves and flower petals coming at me is all I have to worry about.
Right now I’m mostly killing time, waiting until I catch the noon bus to Hania, where I’ll meet Katie around eight-thirty tonight. I’ve had a pretty quiet twenty-four hours, actually. Like I mentioned in my last entry, the wind pretty much killed my options yesterday and last night I was feeling a bit worn out, like I needed a night to myself where I did very little. So around seven I went down to the market and got some stuff for dinner, came back here and ate, and then just lay around my room reading The Sheep Look Up, a classic Sci-Fi novel from the early seventies written by John Brunner—good stuff. So that’s where I’m at …
Feeling a little lethargic at the moment. I’m also feeling like much of the momentum of this trip has been lost. The wind of course has been scuttling my plans left and right and has forced me to hang out in places I’m kind of thru with. Also my left ankle has started giving me trouble. I injured it years ago and sometimes it just locks up. I guess all the hiking I’ve done over the last couple of weeks plus has taken its toll. For the moment my ankle is telling me that it’s done …
Katie should infuse some life into things, though. Also, by the time she heads out I’ll be ready to power thru the last of my Crete itinerary and move on to other islands—and new adventures always get the juices flowing …
Speaking of other islands, I’m already rethinking my plans for Santorini. The basic idea behind this trip is that it would be an exploration of Crete and to Dodecanese. By going off this plan I think I might find myself becoming a bit scattered in purpose. Plus as I read about Cyclades islands besides Santorini I’m having trouble finding much that really calls to me; I find mostly crowds and high costs, which is not what I’m looking for at all. So I think I’ll go back to my old plan and head over to Rhodes once I’m done here. I think Santorini might have to wait for a future trip. I think it will survive without me …
We'll see, though. I'm going back and forth on a lot of things right now and it wouldn't surprise me if Santorini ends up on the table once again ...
It’s about nine-thirty in the morning and the wind’s still blasting thru Paleohora. I’m sitting in the courtyard/garden of the place I’m sating at relatively sheltered from it all—the occasional swirling mass of detached leaves and flower petals coming at me is all I have to worry about.
Right now I’m mostly killing time, waiting until I catch the noon bus to Hania, where I’ll meet Katie around eight-thirty tonight. I’ve had a pretty quiet twenty-four hours, actually. Like I mentioned in my last entry, the wind pretty much killed my options yesterday and last night I was feeling a bit worn out, like I needed a night to myself where I did very little. So around seven I went down to the market and got some stuff for dinner, came back here and ate, and then just lay around my room reading The Sheep Look Up, a classic Sci-Fi novel from the early seventies written by John Brunner—good stuff. So that’s where I’m at …
Feeling a little lethargic at the moment. I’m also feeling like much of the momentum of this trip has been lost. The wind of course has been scuttling my plans left and right and has forced me to hang out in places I’m kind of thru with. Also my left ankle has started giving me trouble. I injured it years ago and sometimes it just locks up. I guess all the hiking I’ve done over the last couple of weeks plus has taken its toll. For the moment my ankle is telling me that it’s done …
Katie should infuse some life into things, though. Also, by the time she heads out I’ll be ready to power thru the last of my Crete itinerary and move on to other islands—and new adventures always get the juices flowing …
Speaking of other islands, I’m already rethinking my plans for Santorini. The basic idea behind this trip is that it would be an exploration of Crete and to Dodecanese. By going off this plan I think I might find myself becoming a bit scattered in purpose. Plus as I read about Cyclades islands besides Santorini I’m having trouble finding much that really calls to me; I find mostly crowds and high costs, which is not what I’m looking for at all. So I think I’ll go back to my old plan and head over to Rhodes once I’m done here. I think Santorini might have to wait for a future trip. I think it will survive without me …
We'll see, though. I'm going back and forth on a lot of things right now and it wouldn't surprise me if Santorini ends up on the table once again ...
3 comments:
Wind will always drive the momentum out of whatever I'm doing.
LAA 6-1 LAD
Yeah, wind pretty much kills everything, especially when you're on the coast. I only have one or two more stops to make down there, so I'm crossing my fingers.
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