I am currently in a hotel room in Olympia, having visited one of the most famous of all Greek sites and swum in the hotel pool, but this post is about yesterday (today will come later – probably after supper). Susan Shimmin, who helped my parents to arrange the purchase of their Greek house turned 70 yesterday, and I was among those invited to the party. This featured a very pretty walk between Stoupa and a place called Kalliope’s. Some of us, including me, did the walk twice, while at the other extreme were those who did not walk at all. Back at Stoupa there was a royal spread of wonderful Greek food and then the unveiling of the cake – and what a cake it was!
Even though I decamped shortly after the cake was unveiled I have some fine photos from the day…
The beefed up flip flops in which did both the walks I have thus far mentioned in my Greek blog posts
Getting pictures of butterflies is not easy, but this one is an unequivocal success.
This was the only LIVE millipede that I saw.
These distance signs (3 photos worth) are fun but definitely not to be trusted!
This is surely the smuggest moggy you have ever seen, surveying the world from its comfortable, dog-proof perch!For the walk from Kalliope’s to Stoupa there were canoeists keeping pace with us.
The canoeists were far from the only people put in boats.
“Who’s the slowest of us?” “Torto is” Rudyard Kipling’s version of how the Tortoise got its name!Yacht and canoes heading in opposite direction
This striking edifice is the Stoupa Cultural Centre (the replica Byantine church is definitely ghastlier!)Stoupa Bay and it is so clear that you can see the cold water springs that feed into it clearly.A close up of a cold water spring siteThe cake from aboveA side view of the cake.
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