Wed 02.Dec.2009
Paleohora, Crete, Greece
Autumn's End
All of these pictures are from what turned out to be the last day of
Autumn. Winter arrived last night with a boom!
That is another story for another post.
!["The Traveller" sculpture - silhouette of two men, one on a burro](pix/2009/img_7498.jpg)
![toward Sandy Beach narrow sidewalk with arching tree. siilhouette of burro sculpture in distance](pix/2009/img_7495.jpg)
Sandy Beach.
The plaque by this sculpture say it represents a pair of travellers,
and celebates Paleohora's intimate relationship with tourism, or words
to that effect.
Sandy Beach is on the west side of the little peninsula. Rocky Beach
is
on the east side, near my room at the Skorpios Restaurant &
Rooms
For Rent.
![breakwater small boulders sloping down to calm sea](pix/2009/img_7521.jpg)
![Woo Woo Prevention magazine. Title in English, rest in Greek](pix/2009/img_7572.jpg)
The breakwater outside my home away from home, near Rocky Beach.
This was the last time the ocean would be so smooth and murmuring;
Since last night, it rolls and swells and booms.
I've seen this before when I lived near the ocean in Santa Cruz. Smooth
and glassy all Summer until the first storm. Then dancing and booming
until Spring.
Genuine U.S. quasi- medical woo woo in
Greek
![Turquoise Cafe outdoor cafe with turquoise green stucco wall](pix/2009/img_7577.jpg)
![Ayios - Wireless Cafe yellow wall blue chairs, guitarist on porch](pix/2009/img_7579.jpg)
Kafe Agios
My regular wi-fi cafe, with bright yellow walls and blue chairs on the
outside. For some reason, I can only make the net connection work
inside. Oh well.
![New Year Lights lights strung over mostly dark street](pix/2009/img_7553.jpg)
![Good Year lights reading "Kali Xronia"](pix/2009/img_7589.jpg)
Waadya know - New Year decorations.
Kali Xronia means Good (New) Year.
I dunno what Polla means. Xronia (Chronia) means Year.
![Ruined Fortress dead tree branch in ruined venetian fortress](pix/2009/img_7532.jpg)
![MMethought Ye Spoke of Goats Apon The Battlement goats grazing in ruined venetian fortress](pix/2009/img_7535.jpg)
Inside the ruined Venetian fort atop the little hill at the tip of
Paleohora's peninsula.
These goats were grazing inside the ruins. Their herder was about 50m
away.
The goats were shy and curious, and friendly. Kinda sweet kids, so to
speak.
![Sunset sunset behind incoming storm clouds](pix/2009/img_7544.jpg)
![First Sunset of Winter sunset behind incoming rain clouds](pix/2009/img_7546.jpg)
As the day grew later, the wind started rising. Little did I know it
was the season's first storm moving in.
The wind calmed back down to breeze levels today, but it is at least
20 F colder now. The ocean no longer murmurs smooth and glassy -
it booms and dances. Lightning has played among the broken clouds off
and on since yesterday evening. Curiously there has been little actual
rain. Betcha snow has fallen up in the White Mountains, between
here and Hania.
![Snak Bar greek letters "SNAK MPAR"](pix/2009/img_7548.jpg)
![Bus Station sign - POTA / DRINKS et al.](pix/2009/img_7554.jpg)
English in Greek clothing. Snak Bar.
So pota means drinks! Betcha that is where potable comes from.
The stuff you learn in furrin' languages
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