Seeing stars!

It's been a fun but fairly uneventful few weeks with the odd exception.  It was Paul's birthday a couple of weeks ago and we had a lovely day at Leftos Yialos starting the day with a bottle of bubbly and ending it in a similar fashion with champagne cocktails on the roof terrace with Karen and a couple of her friends, Maggie and Keith. We then had the best meal of the summer so far at the Ostria taverna.

A couple of days later we awoke to the sounds of drilling. On further investigation a couple of workmen were busy attempting to fill in a pothole that had appeared due to some heavy rain.  They had obviously drilled somewhere they shouldn't as the first pothole was now joined by another hole that was spewing water from the mains pipe!!! Several hours ensued of the men trying to bail out the hole with plastic bottles and a couple of old chaps looking on and giving their suggestions at various intervals :)  One of the old guys decided to join in and started digging with a pick axe whilst the two workmen had a cigarette and looked on....it was definitely a case of "how many men does it take to....."

Men at work

Later that week we had an unexpected request from a friend who needed to return to the UK for a week due to a family bereavement.  She has a lovely dog, Ed, who needed looking after while she was away and would we consider doing so at her house.  We were more than happy to say yes and doubly so when various friends said 'ooh, lucky things' when we mentioned it.  As it turns out the villa sits on the hillside at Steni Vala overlooking the ocean and is absolutely gorgeous so this is where we have been ensconced for the past week....eating apricots straight from the tree and getting all over tans on the roof terrace or the little beach below the house (which we discovered was the local nudist beach on our first visit... so, when in Rome :))   It's not going to be easy going back to the studio in Patitiri after the peace and quiet of Steni Vala!

The villa from the beach

view from the lower terrace

View from the master bedroom



Ed

Now to the reasons for the title of the post.....I've seen stars 3 times in the past week. The first time was when I managed, god knows how, to bash my forehead on the sink in the bathroom.  The second was at the villa when I forgot to stayed stooped coming up the stairs and stood up under the windows that open inwards....crack, right on top of my head :( The third time was actually rather beautiful.  We were sat on the terrace with a glass of wine, watching the geckos that come out when it gets dark, when I suddenly spotted a shooting star flashing across the sky.....it was such an amazing sight it brought a tear to my eye.  A great way to end the day.