Dear Barbara: If you could see us now you would wonder what is coming off. We left Crete yesterday for Skiros which is 8 hours by sea from the Greek mainland. No rooms were available so we slept in a person’s backyard under a grape arbor. We have no choice but to wait for aContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 28July1971: Skiros, Greece: Old And Very Clever Husband and Young Wife”
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Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 3August1971: Skiros, Greece: We Are Sleeping Outside Under a Grape Arbor
Dear Mother: This is my last letter till I get off Skiros. Every Greek Island brought something new. There was only one small hotel and it was full so we are out of town in vineyard. We have cots to sleep on hoping we are not visited by any scorpions. The sun wakes us upContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 3August1971: Skiros, Greece: We Are Sleeping Outside Under a Grape Arbor”
“Travels to A Different Time” : July 1970 Squabbles in Iraklion, Crete and Robert to the Rescue
July 25, 1970: Up early at 7:30 today. Mom hand washed some of our clothes and we went down for breakfast at the pension we were saying at owned by Ismini Georgiadis. Bread and honey with scrambled eggs. Mom had a little squabble with Ismini over a cup of coffee. When we arrived at herContinue reading ““Travels to A Different Time” : July 1970 Squabbles in Iraklion, Crete and Robert to the Rescue”
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