{I'm still adding retrospective nuggets, mac meze, if you like, and some day soon I will get up to speed with the now! I do want to record comments on recent events - both home and abroad - like Lady Gaga - they're incubating!}
Last week of the month we have friends round to celebrate the full moon and the autumn equinox – we sit outside and enjoy what will probably be our last meal out on the upper deck. With the nights being light, we have dogs reverting to their lupine nature, baying and barking. So after several sleepless nights we set off to Thrace for our godson’s wedding and ready for a welcome break. On the way up between Kavalla and Alexandroupolis we pass a large convoy of over 20 vehicles, ambulances, vans, cars. I am excited to see their GB registration plates, wishing we had a Scottish emblem on our car. Intrigued to see Viva Palestina posters and Palestinian flags, I wave and give a thumbs-up sign; they respond with flashing headlights. Clearly they are on a mission – to be continued.
Last week of the month we have friends round to celebrate the full moon and the autumn equinox – we sit outside and enjoy what will probably be our last meal out on the upper deck. With the nights being light, we have dogs reverting to their lupine nature, baying and barking. So after several sleepless nights we set off to Thrace for our godson’s wedding and ready for a welcome break. On the way up between Kavalla and Alexandroupolis we pass a large convoy of over 20 vehicles, ambulances, vans, cars. I am excited to see their GB registration plates, wishing we had a Scottish emblem on our car. Intrigued to see Viva Palestina posters and Palestinian flags, I wave and give a thumbs-up sign; they respond with flashing headlights. Clearly they are on a mission – to be continued.
We’ve been booked in at a local hotel and, lovely though the room is, we find it looks on to the graveyard, next to which is a smallholding with goats, dogs and chickens. What we didn’t expect was in the dead of night- sorry, irresistible !- a cat-in-heat chose to announce her state …and set off the lot – cats, dogs and hens – great !
Still we’ve enjoyed a lovely reception with an impressive standard of catering despite large numbers. We have a grand time catching up on all the family news and getting some serious traditional dancing in. The couple - handsome groom, totally delectable bride - made their dramatic entrance …. through the floor in a glass-sided lift and were then lost to sight due to the over-exuberant use of a bubble machine. At least it offered some visual relief from the groom in his de rigeur shiny suit, resembling a celebrity night- club singer or up-market pimp. With this, only slight, touch of Kitsch and Bling we can refer to him as the Kling of the event …or am I being a Blitsch?
We get back to our room and manage to take a wonderful shot of a glorious spider’s web constructed in the corner of our balcony, back-lit by the almost-full moon – absolute magic!!
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