Repeats

Apie (pronounced Adree - long e the short e, which hard for me to say) tells me to come back to Molyvos. He tells me something you'll hear often in Greece: "I give you special price." I like Molyvos but there are few places I've been to more than once outside of North America - that means Canada and Mexico - you'd be surprised how many Americans don't know that. I went to Guatemala twice. The second time I was passing through to go further south. I went to Croatia twice because the first time was a wim and I wanted to see more. It was nice to see the people I stayed with the first time, especially Nensi and Tio in Dubrovnik. I was in Turkey before also. I love Turkey and the people seem genuinely sincere. They really want you to like them.



Now I have two people who either live on Chios or have that read my blog. I am sorry I didn't stay there longer. I did go to Mesta a tiny walled in city. The streets are so narrow and because of the arches it was almost like walking through a cave. The church there was one of the most beautiful iconic ones I've seen.



I also went to Pyrgi. The building facades are designed with intricate geometric and flowery patterns of grey and white made of volcanic sand.



Getting to both of these places was time consuming. The roads are so narrow there are constant nogiations to who gets to go first, then there are cars parked on the road with no driver - he has to be found. The bus driver then had to get gas and to top it off, after driving like a maniac, I guess he decided he would arrive too soon so he slowed to a crawl. Really I could have walked faster.



I went to these place because it seemed like I should. I go to museams because I think that I should. I try to be cultured but if I have a choice and it's not a rainy day I would rather hike in the mtns., swim or go biking. My brother, Warren, met up with me in Spain. I believe it was San Sebastion. I liked San Sebastion because there was a hill in town that I could run up every morning and an island in the bay that I could swim to. Warren likes to go over every painting with a fine comb. I got bored and no one was around so I started doing push ups. That caused all the security guards to come rushing in. What did they think I was doing? This was even before 9/11.

So what I"m saying if I'm not doing something active often I get bored. I need to find some good water or go for a hike.