Tue 01.Dec.2009
Paleohora, Crete, Greece
South Coast
![Balcony Roofs Orange slabs over guestroom balconies](pix/2009/img_7451.jpg)
![Dead Yard view down from balcony into apparently abonded courtyard](pix/2009/img_7455.jpg)
From my room, my little balcony looks south and a bit east across - in order - the
street, a wide walkway, a rocky breakwater, and the ocean.
West is the next room's balcony, identical to mine; immediately east is
an unoccupied house, then a pretty durned scenic coast.
![Out the Door balcony rail, sea, sky, edge of PVC table](pix/2009/img_7457.jpg)
![View East lamp post, promenade, ocean promontories](pix/2009/img_7469.jpg)
Hania was a city, albeit a small city, with a significant tourist
component.
Paleohora is mostly a tourist resort. Doubtless it has
bustle of a sort in season. By early December, most folks here are
locals and lots of tourist traps are closed up for the season. Suits me
OK.
![Strollers middle-aged couple walking on promenade by sea](pix/2009/img_7470.jpg)
![Cylcladic Houses whitewashed cubism with blue trim](pix/2009/img_7473.jpg)
![vine dead leaves on vine on white block wall](pix/2009/img_7475.jpg)
![construction beams in front of indoor building site](pix/2009/img_7477.jpg)
![Back Street street with whitewashed buildings andd bougainvilla](pix/2009/img_7479.jpg)
![Derelict upper floor and empty windows in concrete wall](pix/2009/img_7482.jpg)
![Santa's Comin' glass figures in shop display](pix/2009/img_7484.jpg)
![Snowy Sphere blown glass snow scene in sphere in shop window](pix/2009/img_7485.jpg)
Christmas windows! They are everywhere.
![bell tower church bell tower outlined against sky](pix/2009/img_7580.jpg)
![Pizzeria Niki Pastel blue pizzeria, sign over door](pix/2009/img_7490.jpg)
![Two Trees green spiky tree and golden nut-cluster tree](pix/2009/img_7494.jpg)
![Palm side-lighted and trimmed palm tree](pix/2009/img_7510.jpg)
Some of the local sub-tropical flora are visibly past their
sell-by date (see above), but most are still gloriously indifferent to
the fact that December is here.
Perhaps it has to do with the definite southerly wind that has been
blowing gently or stiffly since I arrived two afternoons ago. Tonight
it has become a real flag-whipper. Whatever the strength, it has been
blowing steadily out of the north african desert. No rain. just the
same broken clouds moving along faster of less so. If it were to
turn northerly, we could be in for serious weather. No sign of that
though. Knock on palm fiber!
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