Tue 01.Dec.2009
Paleohora, Crete, Greece
South Coast
Orange slabs over guestroom balconiesview down from balcony into apparently abonded courtyard
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.
balcony rail, sea, sky, edge of PVC tablelamp post, promenade, ocean promontories
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.
middle-aged couple walking on promenade by seawhitewashed cubism with blue trim
dead leaves on vine on white block wallbeams in front of indoor building site
street with whitewashed buildings andd bougainvillaupper floor and empty windows in concrete wall
glass figures in shop displayblown glass snow scene in sphere in shop window

Christmas windows! They are everywhere.

church bell tower outlined against skyPastel blue pizzeria, sign over door
green spiky tree and golden nut-cluster treeside-lighted and trimmed palm tree
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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