I wish I could give you an idea of the beauty of this island, it is really a paradise
Edward Lear, in a letter to his sister Ann, 1848
(in Greece, Michael Carroll, IB Taurus)
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
‘You rise each morning to a new day, a new world, which has to be created from scratch. Each day is a brilliant improvisation with full orchestra -the light on the sea, the foliage, the stabbing cypresses, the silver spindrift olives…’
Lawrence Durrell, The Greek Islands
Thank you to everyone for your thoughts and good wishes, it means so much. We are not on the island: we have guests and they were evacuated safely last night. Everyone in the area we know of are safe and so our the houses.