Tuesday 13 September 2011
We awoke to one of the nine roosters and one one hen crowing - they intended to get nine hens and one rooster but learning is a big part of Robyn and David's life on the Greek island of Ikaria. It's very lush as islands go and about 25 miles long (Catalina?!).
We had homemade chocolate apple coffee cake and home grown mint tea on the terrace overlooking a 400 year old oak tree, the village below and then the Aegean. We could even see Turkey from their back yard. The bees that David is learning to keep were humming loudly as Robyn gave us a tour of the Shangri-La they found near a water fall and stream. David loves to garden and be at the beach and Robyn loves music and the healing arts. She told us stories over our lunch of french fries (potatoes dug out by us) and Greek salad (also everything but the feta cheese picked by us), of her days on the road with Milton Berle, George Jessel, Donald O'Connor, Tim Conway and others during her time as a Gold Digger with Dean Martin.
David called his mechanic who said we could take our van over for a fuel hose and horn the next morning. (David speaks fluent Greek after living on this and the island of Amorgos for a total of 15 years.) We had some of his homemade wine with an alcohol content of about 14% as opposed to the usual 12%...watch out! We had pasta with sun dried tomatoes, beets and bell peppers then fell into out respective beds- two in the spare room and one in the van (which was parked below).
We awoke to one of the nine roosters and one one hen crowing - they intended to get nine hens and one rooster but learning is a big part of Robyn and David's life on the Greek island of Ikaria. It's very lush as islands go and about 25 miles long (Catalina?!).
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| David's "distillery" |
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