We all arrived safely and without any major travel troubles in the pretty seaside town of Porto Rafti. During the first couple of days my colleagues and I spent most of our time cleaning, doing shopping and getting ready for the students to come. This year we do not have a car even for shopping. It means that we have to walk a couple of kilometers to the supermarkets where we can buy most of the things we need at a reasonable price.
My one colleague Annet even dared to ask the manager at one if we could use a shopping cart to bring all the groceries to the place we stay on the other side of the bay and bring it back the next day. To my utmost amazement and ultimately to my embarrassment , he said yes and a bit later we were pushing and pulling it along the edge of the bay, back to where we stay. After the experience I am convinced more than ever that shopping-carts are probably related to stubborn donkeys or are all possessed of some evil in one way or the other. For some mysterious reason they always go a different direction than you pushed them into, or is that the by-product of the Greek road system?
I am not sure if this pushing or walking had something to do with it, but for a couple of days I have been suffering from headache and a pain in the neck. (Not referring to any of my companions.) Headache for such a long period is unusual for me, since I am not married. Have I been in the sun a bit much perhaps? Other possible causes may have been the water, the pillow and bed I sleep on, or something in the food. (Oh please let it not be the gyros or the wine! I did not even have that much!)
For the rest we are still all pretty much alive and well and without any stomach problems but that could be since I have only cooked once, so next week that may change. ;-)
More about Greece later on...
