Monday, September 29, 2008






I am Sparticus

Just a little way from here is Sparta.
The home of the famous Spartans.
And of course SPARTICUS – I love that movie. The small and the brave overcoming the might of oppressive powers. Love it.

We are here in this little village with more local humans than tourist humans. This is the last week and flight to this region. The holidays end as the tourists slow up to a trickle as the sun fades.
It is a full blue sky day. Warm not hot. Windy and pleasant.

It is a one street town. Only one cab – you have to ring two days before to fix an appointment if you want to go somewhere. It has a Bank but it opens only one day a week. Last night Joan an me had a two course meal with wine for twenty pounds. No menu – just a few words from the son of the family – and his Mother cooks the food. Good eh?

Good news – the Cointreau is cheap enough to buy – it is twenty pounds in my locality - so I don't buy. Joan is happy with Mataxa 5 for a late night reflective sip at the end of the day. We sit on the balcony and view the endless sea. Love it.

We can do excursions from here to wondrous local historic site like Olympia where the Olympic games started some 700 BC – before Christ!!
The just did a few hundred years sprints in them days!!
But – we have come here to chill and music and read and food and ………. Get rid of my www.pipwilson.cough

Great Pipturesque above
Sunset here last night hmmmmm