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PlakChat / Bedtime Reading
« on: July 20, 2007, 04:04:27 PM »
Quote from: Tony Smith
Quote from: Rowena & Carl
Quote from: roger
Quote from: Ploppy
Quote from: Tony Smith
Last year read "The Island" by Ian Hislop's wife about the leper colony on Spinalonga near Ag Nic on the North coast of Crete. Very moving.

Yep me too, last year on the beach saw this book polished off. Got mixed reviews but I enjoyed it.

 I read that too last year in Plakias  - but I did not realise it was by Ian Hislop's wife
 roger

I read it this year & loved it, now I'm reading A Taste of Honey by Bryon ? ( will post surname later ), he's a canadian guy but from greek roots he was a chef and now is planning to retire on Crete, all set around the Plakias area. Really good so far. I borrowed it from Andy, at the Library so if you want to read it i'll be taking it back in October.

Rowena

Shamelessly copied from Wikipedia

Victoria Hislop is a British author. Educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, she worked in publishing and as a journalist before becoming an author.

Her first novel The Island, which the Sunday Express hailed as the new Captain Corelli's Mandolin, was a Number 1 Bestseller in the UK, its success in part the result of having been selected by the Richard and Judy Book Club for their 2006 Summer Reads. She married journalist and Private Eye editor, Ian Hislop on 16th April 1988. They have two children and live in Kent.

Now who will be reading the seveth Harry Potter on the beach tommorrow?

At first I was a bit confused as the characters live in a village called Plaka and I kept thinking it was our beloved Plakias but I dont think we have too many lepers in Plakias (do we)?
Tony

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PlakChat / Bedtime Reading
« on: July 20, 2007, 03:50:12 PM »
Quote from: Rowena & Carl
Quote from: roger
Quote from: Ploppy
Quote from: Tony Smith
Last year read "The Island" by Ian Hislop's wife about the leper colony on Spinalonga near Ag Nic on the North coast of Crete. Very moving.

Yep me too, last year on the beach saw this book polished off. Got mixed reviews but I enjoyed it.

 I read that too last year in Plakias  - but I did not realise it was by Ian Hislop's wife
 roger

I read it this year & loved it, now I'm reading A Taste of Honey by Bryon ? ( will post surname later ), he's a canadian guy but from greek roots he was a chef and now is planning to retire on Crete, all set around the Plakias area. Really good so far. I borrowed it from Andy, at the Library so if you want to read it i'll be taking it back in October.

Rowena

Shamelessly copied from Wikipedia

Victoria Hislop is a British author. Educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, she worked in publishing and as a journalist before becoming an author.

Her first novel The Island, which the Sunday Express hailed as the new Captain Corelli's Mandolin, was a Number 1 Bestseller in the UK, its success in part the result of having been selected by the Richard and Judy Book Club for their 2006 Summer Reads. She married journalist and Private Eye editor, Ian Hislop on 16th April 1988. They have two children and live in Kent.

Now who will be reading the seveth Harry Potter on the beach tommorrow?

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PlakChat / Bedtime Reading
« on: July 20, 2007, 09:15:00 AM »
Last year read "The Island" by Ian Hislop's wife about the leper colony on Spinalonga near Ag Nic on the North coast of Crete. Very moving.

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Plakias / Reporting In
« on: July 19, 2007, 02:30:50 PM »
Quote from: Chas
OMG .... is harribobs psychic

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Plakias / Reporting In
« on: July 12, 2007, 04:20:29 PM »
Quote from: roger
Quote from: Mike G
Quote from: Rowena & Carl
Well what can I say it was a hot one, the first 8 days the temperature on the beach ranged from 45 to 52 degrees, I like the heat but this was a bit much.
I'd be interested to know where there is a thermometer in Plakias. I've long been interested in weather and some of the resorts I go to have digital temperature readouts strategically placed, but I've never seen one in Plakias.

If you took a thermometer yourself and measured it actually on the beach I assume it was in the sun.

Mike

 There must be one in the Livicn . i have never actually seen it but I have frequent conversations with Dionussos about the weather and most eveings he tells me what the temrpature has been that day and what the forecast is for tomorrow . I think he does it to make me even thirstier !
 roger

My son staying at Asomatos texted me today and said temp was 33*C

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Plakias / Son visiting Plakias Tommorrow
« on: July 09, 2007, 03:38:39 PM »
Quote from: George
Quote from: Tony Smith
Hi All,
My 19 year old son and girlfriend are visiting Plakias for a week from 10th July. They are staying with friends who live in Asomatos. Anyone have an idea of much it costs for a taxi from Plakias to there and also if there is a number they can ring to get a taxi to pick them up if they are going down to Plakias? I don't want our friends to have to ferry them around.
Tony :

Try Zacharias Zourbakis - Local Plakias Taxi - 0030-2832-031910
email: zakzourbakis@hotmail.com
or www.plakias-taxi.com

No idea about the cost but Zach will quote you.
george g...


Cheers George

Tony

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Plakias / Son visiting Plakias Tommorrow
« on: July 09, 2007, 03:21:47 PM »
Hi All,
My 19 year old son and girlfriend are visiting Plakias for a week from 10th July. They are staying with friends who live in Asomatos. Anyone have an idea of much it costs for a taxi from Plakias to there and also if there is a number they can ring to get a taxi to pick them up if they are going down to Plakias? I don't want our friends to have to ferry them around.
Tony :

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