after 3 months in Europe, mostly Greece,
with a new left hip (hooray!!!)
and no longer walking with a cane.
on that, my first morning back,
was portentous of a mighty wave a-comin'
for those with eyes to see,
discerning minds to strip away the spin,
and hearts to feel.
In both poetry and prose,
I will not comment further on this now
What has happened in Greece and happens now in several other countries,
will begin in the rest of the world too - even countries, like Canada, that have felt immune.
I reluctantly left my adopted home in Loutraki, Greece
which is only an hour or so from Athens and not far at all from Old Corinth
filled comfortably with 2 good meals and 4 recent movies (as I have said before, I like to suffer in comfort!).
a beer, and change euros back in to dollars.
And off to Vancouver (about a 6 hour flight across three time zones)
it was already late evening and I had been traveling for many hours since leaving Athens,
there was only one room left, the Presidential suite. Since that was over $1,500,
I wasn't feeling very presidential and went looking for something more fit for a commoner.
for the night which I could find was still $300. By this time I was ready to pay that "princely" sum anyway just to get some sleep before an early morning flight to Terrace - many kilometers north.
but nothing special - although I did get the "free" newspaper in the first photo way above :-)
but this time I lucked out and was on a jet (thus shaving some time off of the usual 2 1/2 hour flight)
where I had left my car parked unobtrusively up against a high hedge in his backyard, and I was back in business - or so I thought. But when I re-connected the battery and made my entry into the vehicle I immediately realized that I had forgotten to close the window which was up against the hedge. My poor car was full of spiders and creepy crawleys and twigs and leaves and such lol.
I had been working 20 hour days because of dealings with structural engineers, agents, lawyers, banks and notaries and such due to the Bitshares-Munich fiasco and also I was trying to buy a property in Loutraki so that I could get Greek residency under the "Golden Visa" program. My health was deteriorating again despite some good improvement after the hip operation. The downturn was because of stress and lack of sleep and exercise I figured, so I was determined to get back into great shape again now that I was in Terrace with the opportunity to perhaps rest and recreate.
my car!
I decided I would walk sometimes - at first around the block of my friend's house where I was staying:
But later I started leaving my car to take pictures in other parts of this (very spread out) northern British Columbia town.
And I was rewarded with shots of fisherman trying the world famous salmon fishing at various spots along the Skeena River which runs through Terrace.
as well as other shots of the river and surrounding countryside:
east view
west view
north view
Even small patches were yielding hundreds of pounds!
as a closing note..............
my sister with the brand new Maximus
Over and out,
