Friday, February 8, 2008

World Neighbor and the Bountiful Greek Gifts


My wife, Demetria, is Greek so we decided to go to Greece and Italy for our honeymoon. We got off our plane in Athens before transferring to the to another plane to the island of Mykonos. While we were taking the tram to the terminal Demetria got a nice face full of hairy armpit. Demetria is a bit shorter than me so she was perfect nose level with a few folks that were holding onto the overhead straps. She just stood there looking a little defeated and braved it out. I winked and smiled at her ;-)

Later that day night after an Olympic Airways twin prop flight from hell, we slid into our room in Mykonos. The next morning we awoke to the beautiful views of the Mediterranean Sea from our hotel window. We enjoyed a continental breakfast on the sunny patio and got ready for our day. We headed down to the marina so that we could take in all the artisans painting and selling their crafts. We came away with a few fantastic paintings depicting scenery on the Greek islands. We also purchased a number of worry beads to give as gifts to our friends. This is the trip that inspired me to find and import ethnographic art and cultural crafts. I always have such a great time searching out the unique one of a kind items and talking with the creators. Demetria and I took our new treasures back to the hotel and spent the rest of the day on the beach. The topless ladies were having a great time but Demetria wasn’t having it. She was quite happy with her great little bikini …as was I !

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