Tag Archives: Crete

I’ve got my eye on this place

Posted on September 24, 2010 by

Only thing is I’ve been painting the hall walls and banisters today and I’m already a bit fed up and wan. But if everyone came over to help… You can have your supper here, just across the way, my favourite … Continue reading →

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Odyssey Part I

Posted on September 21, 2010 by

We stopped off in Chania’s main square. Trezza ordered our daily coffees at Decatria (no. 13) while I dashed across the road hoping that even though the hour was, in my view, exceptionally early (nine) that the International Times might … Continue reading →

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Kalispera!

Posted on September 20, 2010 by

Tomorrow I will be writing my first ever ‘travel piece’ about a cruise that I persuaded T to accompany me on. It was only towards the end of our odyssey that I learned that she had spent most of the … Continue reading →

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Less lust

Posted on September 11, 2008 by

from less protein, as the man who walked up and down Oxford Street in a sandwich board used to shout. From the stallholder’s body language, you’d have to think that his fish is not the lustiest. One of the things … Continue reading →

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The redecoration

Posted on September 10, 2008 by

is partly complete. Meanwhile here is a picture of man selling fish in Chania town square, Crete.

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