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« on: May 25, 2016, 12:33:24 AM »
I often wonder what happened to my friends , I met and shared many good times with ,when we lived in Mirthios, and later Plakias, in 85,86 ,87. I am only still in touch with one Adam an American now living in Paris that used to work in the Alianthos with Sifi.
The others I remember was Caroline & Guy Adar , Peter & Jeannie who was a music teacher in rethymnon but lived in Mirthios and was our neighbours for a while , Sacha who ran the plakias youth hostel then, an irish girl enya whose boyfriend ran/or owned the Smyrna/ Smerna Bar . There was Alan and Beechy who ran the pension for Anna which is now Anna apartments in Mirthios also in the village were eccentric Ruth , and Americans Dallas and Vicky , Ronnie , Tim Oliver a builder and Brian and Leyla. In plakias in the Alianthos shop were two german girls Ute & christina , and beautiful guy from Bavaria called thomas , and Hazel a girl from England that came for a week and stayed forever or at least a while .
The Greeks in Mirthios we knew was of course Giorgio the name of the bar he ran, below the then Mirthios youth hostel , the cooking in his bar was done by his mother affectionately known by all as Mama , overseen by her handsome and proud husband, the spit of what Giorgio surely has become , his brother had the Dolphin Bar in Plakias Manoussous , Anna from the now Anna apartments who visited at weekends from living in rethymnon her sister Crysoula who we once rented a house. The other resturant/bar in the village was run by another Anna with her german help Wolfgang ,but to visit you had to do a detour round the village because of village poltics and jealousy .. Crazy Angelo with a wonderful moustache and wasn't adverse to using a gun , plus his kindly brothers older and younger allways ready to gve a lift ,normally on a tractor . the enterprising bus conducter Lefteris who had bees .rented house sold honey , and we heard went on to sell dougnuts on the beach . The lovely Irene and blind Manoli and sister Andegoni surely dead by now as very old then. Proud Maria from the shop proud of her dead husband decorated by the UK govt for services to british airmen and of course the donkey man looki looki always there to sell you the odd fig or orange for some ridiculous price .
In Plakias Sifi from the Alianthos hotel Resturant, the kindly Manos owner of the then monoply Candia Tours and his team of bus drivers fed strong coffee to keep them awake on transfer nights, the mad drunk monk who always played backgammon outside the lesbain book shop bar the , Lito and Lucas ex Athens and olympic airways staff that opened an restaurant just over the small storm drain bridge who played classical music and did a mean meal of a salad , The brave french couple who took the Greeks on at thier own game to be the first foreign owners to do so at thier Mimosa bar Michel and Tania lovely Lance who I have heard has sadly passed ,who did at one time did the the botanical tours for sunmed and editor of the naughty reps mag whilst working in the office at Iraklion (Heraklion) sadly missed . There must be many more I have missed of forgot the names ......