Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Marathonas
Monday 2nd April
The campsite in Athens was nice but the yellow rain, honestly it was really yellow and left yellow tide marks on all it touched, the battle of Britain and the hounds of the Baskervilles in the morning, not to mention that blooming Scops Owl, which seems to be following us, we were quite glad to leave it and head to Marathonas. A family from Germany chanced upon the place an hour or so later and pulled in to stay in a tent with their 3 children 13, 10 and 8. We spent the afternoon chatting to the mum Lisa who is an American and didn’t see the boys all afternoon, they were so pleased and excited to play with other children who could speak English that it was quite difficult to convince them to go to bed. 2 days later the German/American family moved on and all of our boys wanted to go with them and didn’t mind leaving their parents behind!
We had lazy days on the beach whilst Jon worked and organised the trip to Cyprus to see my mum. During this time a stray dog that lived around the campsite recognised us as a soft touch and adopted us. Jon decided to call her Mavis. She guarded our caravan with great tenacity and woe betides any magpie that strayed too close. She had a very calm and pleasant manner and would walk any member of the family to the toilet block, wait for them, and then return leading the way. She won us over and it wasn’t long before we were off to the supermarket to buy dog food, a bowl and biscuits! If circumstances had been different we would have adopted her and taken her with us, but alas it was not to be.
Sunday 8th April
Easter Sunday. To help the boys celebrate Easter we had a mini Easter egg hunt and Jon got creative and made some bunny rabbit ears out of cereal boxes these were then stuck to their sun hats! Over the weekend the campsite started to fill up with Greeks. One family invited us to join them for a traditional Greek Easter fare. The boys enjoyed seeing a lamb roasted on the spit, the decorated eggs and especially the abundance of chocolate and sweets. The family was very friendly and hospitable and didn’t mind that we couldn’t bring anything to add to the feast.
Monday 2nd April
The campsite in Athens was nice but the yellow rain, honestly it was really yellow and left yellow tide marks on all it touched, the battle of Britain and the hounds of the Baskervilles in the morning, not to mention that blooming Scops Owl, which seems to be following us, we were quite glad to leave it and head to Marathonas. A family from Germany chanced upon the place an hour or so later and pulled in to stay in a tent with their 3 children 13, 10 and 8. We spent the afternoon chatting to the mum Lisa who is an American and didn’t see the boys all afternoon, they were so pleased and excited to play with other children who could speak English that it was quite difficult to convince them to go to bed. 2 days later the German/American family moved on and all of our boys wanted to go with them and didn’t mind leaving their parents behind!
We had lazy days on the beach whilst Jon worked and organised the trip to Cyprus to see my mum. During this time a stray dog that lived around the campsite recognised us as a soft touch and adopted us. Jon decided to call her Mavis. She guarded our caravan with great tenacity and woe betides any magpie that strayed too close. She had a very calm and pleasant manner and would walk any member of the family to the toilet block, wait for them, and then return leading the way. She won us over and it wasn’t long before we were off to the supermarket to buy dog food, a bowl and biscuits! If circumstances had been different we would have adopted her and taken her with us, but alas it was not to be.
Sunday 8th April
Easter Sunday. To help the boys celebrate Easter we had a mini Easter egg hunt and Jon got creative and made some bunny rabbit ears out of cereal boxes these were then stuck to their sun hats! Over the weekend the campsite started to fill up with Greeks. One family invited us to join them for a traditional Greek Easter fare. The boys enjoyed seeing a lamb roasted on the spit, the decorated eggs and especially the abundance of chocolate and sweets. The family was very friendly and hospitable and didn’t mind that we couldn’t bring anything to add to the feast.
