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5月28日 meet me at the blue cafeMy world is miles of endless roads
That leaves a trail of broken dreams "Where have you been?" I hear you say I'll meet you at the Blue Cafe Because, this is where the one who knows Meets the one who does not care The cards of fate the older shows To the younger one who dares to take The chance of no return... Where have you been?
Where are you going to? I want to know what's new I wanna go with you What have you seen? What do you know that's new? Where are you going to? Because I wanna go with you So meet me down at the Blue Cafe The cost is great, the price is high Take all you know, and say goodbye Your innocence, inexperience Mean nothing now Because, this is where the one who knows Meets the one that does not care "Where have you been?" I hear you say
I'll meet you at the Blue Cafe So meet me at the Blue Cafe (chris rea - the blue cafe)
i love this song. the first time i heard it we were having lunch, me, jacs and fran, by the red sea in dahab. the sun was shining, there was a warm breeze licking us, the waves were lazily rolling in, and the food was plentiful. fran and i knew that our travels were coming to an end so we were both lost in our own little worlds, thinking about the miles of endless roads we'd crossed, the trail of broken dreams that we were following, where we'd been, what we'd seen, where we going, and what was new. it reminded me of the hostels we'd stayed in and the strangers we'd met along the way who had each crossed miles of endless road themselves. those hostels were our 'blue cafes', 'blue cafes' where we'd met those who knew and those who didn't care, those who wanted to know where we'd been and what we'd seen, and those who left a trail of broken dreams that was so inspiring that we then wanted to be part of it too. and then this song came on...since then, every time i want to feel warm and fuzzy again, i play this song at top volume in my aunties loungeroom and i drive her crazy.
and now onto something totally unrelated...the latest news from greece.
my second day in alexandria began loudly...i was sleeping on the couch in my aunties livingroom, when all of a sudden i heard screams coming from the veranda just outside...'a snake...aaaaahhh! a snake! quick, it's coming closer! it's guna go into the house! aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh it's massive! look how big it is!!' i ran outside in time to see my uncle spearing the poor reptile in the head with a stick. i tried to stop him, but the snake was already in two pieces. he picked it up with the stick and threw it in the paddock across the road. my mum, the one that did all the screaming, was shaking. and of course, that went on to become the topic of the hour...'did you see how big the bloody thing was? if we didn't kill it in time it would've eaten us. for sure. there's no way we would've got away. did you see how quickly it was moving??' i'm thinking i'd be moving just as quickly if some madman was trying to pierce my skull with a stick too, but how do you explain that to an excited greek mama?
after she stopped hyperventilating she had a strong coffee to calm her nerves, and then we waited for my uncle to pick us up. he arrived from larisa an hour or so later and we said goodbye to my uncle and my aunty for the last time, since we won't be seeing them again before we leave for australia. my uncle promised to take me to mt olympus so, since the weather was nice, we decided to take advantage of it. we drove up to mt olympus, got out and walked around a bit and then stopped at this panoramic restaurant for lunch. mt olympus is absolutely stunning. i can see why the 12 ancient gods chose that as their home. i would've done the same if i was zeus. the mountain is covered in huge pine trees, and the wildflowers that line the roads are in full bloom at the moment. from the panoramic restaurant we could see all the way out to the coastline. there was a group of tourist there and i asked them where they came from. i got so excited when they said the czech republic! i asked them from where in the republic and i got even more excited when a couple of them said they were from brno. 'i've been to brno too!!' then they got excited that someone had heard of their town, and we chatted for a few minutes before we finally left and drove on to a nearby seaside town where we stopped for a coffee. i can't remember the name of the town now, but it was beautiful. it reminded me of dahab a little. there were bamboo umbrellas along the beach, and cafes and restaurants on the other side of the street and mt olympus could be seen from just about everywhere.
my dad and my uncle dropped my mum and i off at the little shopping strip nearby and we spent the next hour and a bit wandering thru the souvenir shops before meeting up with them again and driving onto larisa. when we returned to larisa we stopped off at one of my uncles friends' travel agent shop (you know which one i'm talking about, fran? the place we booked our hungary trip from). we stayed there for about an hour, then they dropped me off at my aunties house and they went back to my uncles. i was planning to go out to the bouzoukia (as opposed to the bouzoukia) with my cousins last night, but we got back later than i thought and by then i couldn't be bothered. so i had a shower to cool down (it's been stinking hot here the last week or so) and then it was lights out.
this morning i got up and went with my cousin stephano to a cafe where my dad and my cousin john were already playing tavli (backgammon). i'm learning how to play too (it's a disgrace for a greek not to know how to play tavli!) but i got bored after watching them play for an hour or so, so i got my cousin to drop me off at the internet cafe. in an hour or so i've gota be at my uncles. there's a peace march on at about 4pm, and my dad and i are gunna catch a bus to get to the starting point. in the dead heat of the day...
more about that in my next entry. hope everyone's coping well with the winter back home, and if there's any cool weather to spare, please send it over. this heat is killing me.
14 days to go and counting. i'm starting to have my little panic attacks about flying again and i hope i get over them before the 10th. i'm glad i'm flying with an arab company though cos they usually play the koran on one of their stations and i miss hearing an immamm praying, so that gives me something to look forward to. besides, allah wouldn't let one of his planes fall out of the sky would he??
THINGS THAT STAND OUT ABOUT GREECE:
* noone has a name - everyone seems to refer to each other as 'wanker' in conversations
* kids (and many adults) spend hours and hours at the internet cafes playing violent computer games, drinking coffee at the cafeterias and calling each other wanker
* you can hear greek music everywhere! good stuff
* it's one of the most expensive european countries i've been to
* the speed limit on the highways is 120km/h
* road rules don't apply
* everyone is still thin and gorgeous
that's all for now. i'm busting for pee pee. too much coffee at the internet cafe where i've been for the last few hours...
lotsalove from larisa, in 36degrees heat,
emy
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