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Plakias / Re: I often wonder 1985,86,87
« on: May 25, 2016, 11:10:06 PM »
I thought it was a success but the pics appear on the preview but when I save they don't appear ,strange
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I thought it was a success but the pics appear on the preview but when I save they don't appear ,strange
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Plakias / Re: I often wonder 1985,86,87
« on: May 25, 2016, 10:23:41 PM »
Thanks Voloudakis going to try it on the test site now , will tell you how I get on .... I use tinypic normally and it gives you a size selection but only the avatar size worked not the larger . but will try imgur to see what happens , thanks again for your help.
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Plakias / Re: I often wonder 1985,86,87
« on: May 25, 2016, 09:02:53 PM »
Maybe someone can explain how to put up photographs ,as on other forums its easy you go to Tinypic upload a file copy and paste ,but it only seems to accept avatar size photos on here ,as I tried on the test . but it must be possible as I have viewed Voloudakis great photos which were very large pics , but need mine to be half the size . Any help would be appreciated.
Also surprised there is no thanks button to thank the kind replies .. mish
Thank you Ian s making my mouth water, maybe when your young and hungry everything tasted better , as sounds so simple to make, but my memory it tasted special ....
Never been back to the area as don't want to break the spell of memory ....
Also surprised there is no thanks button to thank the kind replies .. mish
Thank you Ian s making my mouth water, maybe when your young and hungry everything tasted better , as sounds so simple to make, but my memory it tasted special ....
Never been back to the area as don't want to break the spell of memory ....
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Plakias / Re: I often wonder 1985,86,87
« on: May 25, 2016, 05:04:44 PM »
Thanks again Steven when we knew Lefteris when he was the Rethymnon - Plakias- Mirthios bus conducter , not so grey as his picture you linked . He used to get the cream of the arriving backpackers, for rent rooms for his family, or a small commission from the Pensions , it was easy having met them on the on the bus, it was an easy sell. His job apart from conducting had him jumping off the bus before Plakias ,to tend to his bees , and jumping back on when it turned to go up Mirthios . We got on with him whilst travelling to rethmo for weekly provisions He used to guide and watch the backing up of the bus for the driver. On more than one occasion the village with the only butcher ,can't remember its name , he used to have to move the chairs to let the bus through, as they were all watching a communal tv in the village sq . We eventually rented a really nice Greek house from him, after all his sales tequniques, we had resisted in the past , and got to know him better, he must of started this doughnut business on his retiral from the buses .
Yes thats the name of the Resturant over the small storm drain , when we were flush we used to go there for a special meal ,and remember among other fantastic dishes that Lucas did one I remember was the wonderful mixed egg salad( sounds boring and simple, I know ,but with a real chefs magic something special ) in a large glass bowl a meal in itself.
I remember one night at the begining of a season sitting in the Lysseos having a meal , the weather was foul and it started to rain and thier were candles on the table awaiting the inevitable power cut , expected in in Greece in a storm. Litos was the only restaurant owner then that played either classical music , vangelis or Irene papas, and not the usual pop, so with this good music playing, as up until then we still had electric, the show began , with one of the biggest electrical storms we had seen in Greece , a bit frightening , with crashing thunder and what I can only describe as hundreds of separate bursts of lighting shooting across the sky and our eyeline in the black inky sky it was like our own sound and light show supplied by nature and the music playing until a loud crash of thunder along with a crescendo from the music , and everything went black apart from flickering candles and the music was dramatically cut , you couldn't of staged it better, and is still imprinted on my brain, and never forgotten ......
Yes thats the name of the Resturant over the small storm drain , when we were flush we used to go there for a special meal ,and remember among other fantastic dishes that Lucas did one I remember was the wonderful mixed egg salad( sounds boring and simple, I know ,but with a real chefs magic something special ) in a large glass bowl a meal in itself.
I remember one night at the begining of a season sitting in the Lysseos having a meal , the weather was foul and it started to rain and thier were candles on the table awaiting the inevitable power cut , expected in in Greece in a storm. Litos was the only restaurant owner then that played either classical music , vangelis or Irene papas, and not the usual pop, so with this good music playing, as up until then we still had electric, the show began , with one of the biggest electrical storms we had seen in Greece , a bit frightening , with crashing thunder and what I can only describe as hundreds of separate bursts of lighting shooting across the sky and our eyeline in the black inky sky it was like our own sound and light show supplied by nature and the music playing until a loud crash of thunder along with a crescendo from the music , and everything went black apart from flickering candles and the music was dramatically cut , you couldn't of staged it better, and is still imprinted on my brain, and never forgotten ......
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Plakias / Re: I often wonder 1985,86,87
« on: May 25, 2016, 02:16:05 PM »
Thank you Ian S they must of returned to plakias were caroline was the Sunmed rep for many years and were she met the love of her life her Israeli boy friend Guy We were at thier wedding in Blackpool ,were they opened a cafe l , then we heard they had closed it and were going to grow polytunnel vegtables in New Zealand and lost touch .... thanks so returned to Plakias....
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Plakias / Re: I often wonder 1985,86,87
« on: May 25, 2016, 09:59:39 AM »
Thank you Steven for the update ,glad to hear Onya made a life for herself with Adonis 30 years together , I now remeber Adonis when you mentioned the name (he had a motorbike accident that effected his leg ) , Onya's best freind at the time was Sacha, an Australian girl who ran the Youth hostel, for Plakias's budding Entrepreneur the Greek boy Philip , who had the only watersports company and also, had the scout hut Disco on the beach the Meltem the place to go and be seen ha ha ( the only) till a club called the Hexagon came along .. I will look out old photographs to post so people can see the old plakias ..... I I also forgot to mention Nikos and Marie at the Oasis ,many a time it was just that an Oasis when we walked back from Dammoni beach (oh I do remember the lovely yogurt and honey at the beach bar) on our wait for a lift up to Mirthios either by tractor or in the back of the many toyota style trucks .
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Plakias / I often wonder 1985,86,87
« 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 ......
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 ......
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