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APRIL WEATHER..... Moving on to summer mode now, but not before time. The spring flowers are definitely blooming across the hillsides, and the early tourists are beginning to arrive - but right now mostly from Scandinavia and eastern-bloc countries where it is much colder....
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_____________________________ But eighteen years later we are beginning to wonder. Just when our building nightmares became our dream again, it seems that there are possibilities on the horizon which may make living in Crete an impossible dream once again. Even turn it back into a nightmare! A nightmare involving politically forced repatriation depriving us of our Cretan home. Or, looking on the bright side, we may be destined to join that band of wandering tinkers, the gypsies, searching endlessly for our utopia from the back of a rusty worn out dark blue Ford Transit van - selling clothes pegs or plastic chairs - or both. Anyone for a palm reading!...
Or even - stuck on board
an international car ferry forever without enough money for a couple of
hours on the internet! Oh' the stuff of dreams!!
I continually recall, as I think about the not impossibility that one day we may be forced to leave Crete against our will - because of political imposition. Which is apparently what happened to another (Swedish) couple whose story we told in one of our book reviews several years ago. 'The Winds of Crete' by David McNiel Doran - the story of a couple attempting to find their ideal Cretan village in which to live - for them it became "A journey through their own lives; their excitement and joys on making new discoveries; meeting new friends; with Cretan Filoxenia. A journey though their realizations that some things were not all they seemed; that not everyone or everything was nice; through their misfortunes; ill health; sorrows and disasters. To the final realization that Crete was where they wanted, in the end, to remain. A wish that in the end was denied them by political circumstance".
That Journey came to a heart rending
ending after six years or so of trying to build a new life for
themselves on Crete - "Only,
in the final moments, to have (their) rights to remain on Crete withdrawn
by winds of political change".
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Earthquake activity:
To answer the question without further ado - 'That,
was a Greek General election'.... It still is....
A week or so further down the trail of nightmares,
the three major (albeit by then minority) parties in turn attempted (and failed) to form a coalition
government. In turn, the president himself attempted (and failed) the impossible and
had to form a caretaker government pending a
repeat General Election.
Caretaker Goverment.
Also possibly understandable is the entry to parliament of Golden Dawn (21 Seats), which - whatever it wants people to call it, is probably closer to being neo-Nazi than any other definition. Many Greeks blame immigrants for their problems. Golden Dawn have promised to expel all immigrants. In addition they have been offering practical assistance, food and clothing et al, to members of the Greek population to whom others didn't. There is a second lesson there. Being increasingly well learned.
Many Greeks may not agree with or like these lessons, but they
are carrying apparently increasing weight with voters. And that is
democracy.... As always in Greece, freedom of speech and expression will rule the day, whatever the party leaders have to say, and whatever they do say - that remains the key to democracy - even for non-believers in democracy!
Kalos Ithate Stin Kriti. |
Site Content:- Last Change - additions to Wildflower galleries.
Photo
Galleries...
Wildlife Gallery - the first two pages -
48 unique photographs, including
some
rare specimens of the Cretan fauna. Some is quite beautiful, some a bit
scary/creepy, but all now add to our wildlife page and the ornithology
gallery pages. Remember that it is always worth checking where you
walk or sit before you do!
Start here.
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Can this be you..... or yours... or mine?.. This
Month - Wilf B.
Until next month, best wishes from here on Crete. WB. |