viola's people watching blog
It was a sunless autumn morning when we travelled through The Black Forest of Germany. The slopes on the right and left for miles and miles were heavily wooded with evergreens…conifers growing close together, tall and straight like sentries reaching for the sky, their conical tops piercing the clouds and […]
On Sunday we plucked some of our winter oranges…the ones that had peeped through the thick green foliage and soaked in the rays of the autumn sun and ripened before the others. I pointed to the ripe oranges with a broomstick and Yiannis hunched under the tree, craned his neck […]
Bright and breezy Alexandroupoli, some 114 km south of Oreistiada, bustling with honking cars, parallel roads with blocks and blocks of buildings, housing shops and apartments… with the occasional sea breezes rustling through the streets on a hot summer’s day… was a welcome sight for us, the two travellers, recently […]
We set off on the road to Stavroupolis, which is about some 27 km north west from the city of Xanthi, after a leisurely breakfast at the hotel, one we would indulge in only on holidays… eggs sunny side up, cheese, bacon and toast, nice and buttery and dripping with […]
The week before last, we resumed our long awaited Saturday night outings. But before that, I once again had to do the dreaded deed… descend the stairs into the basement and rummage through those bags stashed with my summer clothes. I had taken a peek into them a week ago […]
Last Sunday marked the picking up of where we had left off, the revisiting of old habits missed so dearly. We were resuming our Sunday lunches out, now that restaurants have been given the green light to serve meals outdoors. No more cooking at home on Sundays or ordering a […]
Saturday evenings used to be the high point of our week before we were visited upon by this blight. We slogged it out from Monday to Friday and at the end of it, we threw on our glad rags and went out on a spree with our friends, this other […]