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AUGUST WEATHER ...
Fabulous all the way. Click on any weather service information link and you will get some super .giff images of a smiling sun, sometimes a cloud or two and temperature readings. Get yourself over here and you can have the real thing - but in August bring lots of sun cream and a big hat! Bathing suit and walking boots.
Gudrun Harms Our intrepid German Language interpreter
Above: Cretanvista's German language magician, Gudrun Harms, whose normal abode is in Dusseldorf, Germany regularly comes to Crete where she and her husband Klaus have a holiday home. She is working hard on the German Language version of our site. Gratis. Free. Apart from that - she is a very fine lady, although she did not believe we could make a good image of her. What do
you think?
Astratigos Village life...
In the February edition of CVNews (CV News February 2004) I rambled on a little about loud-hailers - "MEGAPHONES! The original, long lasting, lifetime guaranteed (and guaranteed to get you attention), all-American bullhorn!! Often with an insidious twist - being connected to an amplified tape recorder....
You can't hear the sheep; goats; pigs and chickens for them!!" I said at the time....
Well, I was wrong - you certainly can't hear the sheep, goats and chickens for them, but the pigs? Oh yes, you can certainly hear the pigs - bullhorn or no bullhorn.... And that isn't all...
A few weeks ago a nice red pick-up arrived in the village square and switched on his bullhorn. The vehicle itself was fairly quiet and the speech short and not too loud. Piglets. The guy was selling piglets! There were a couple of dozen of them, each about the size of a small dog. Clean. Pink. Looking very healthy. And the only smell was from the obviously new straw coating the bed
of the pick-up.
A new version of 'Stop me and buy one' - like 'Davenport's Beer at Home' - delivered to your door - (beer, now at every supermarket no more than 5 miles from home sweet home!) - these piglets are available direct from your local village square!
Not noisy. Very nice. Very civilised. And piglets are pretty.....
Today, about four weeks later, we had the same red pick-up. The same crew. The same loud-hailer. But the noise from the vehicle was a combination of squealing piglets, too many revs, screeching brakes, and a 240 decibel appeal, yes - I said appeal - for us to buy (Please and quickly). Before, I presume, the now adolescent and greatly enlarged piglets took over his vehicle. I half expected to see one sat smiling
in the drivers seat, leaning through the open window - one elbow resting on the door and loud-hailer microphone in the other trotter!
My neighbour Michaelis and I were stood outside his garage, about 8 feet above the pick-up. The Albanian driver asked if we wanted to buy.. Not knowing if he meant the entire rig, piglets and all, or just the animals, I left it to Michaelis. It was very hot. His air conditioning (the open window) was obviously on the blink and he was sweating profusely. He was also bothered, being unable to find
Rodopos - the next village - and was now sat over-heating in the wrong village... The pigs had grown quite large in the intervening weeks, maybe to St Bernard dog size. Able to consume food (money) and water like oversize waste disposal units.
Something else was becoming rapidly obvious as the heated air rose - the food going in more rapidly was also coming out the same way! More rapidly that is. Along with the smell.. I wondered idly about mushrooms - having once read somewhere that hot moist compost was good for them. But I couldn't remember whether it was horse or pig compost so I decided not to mention it. Nil. Same for Michaelis please..
I could see the driver's dilemma. He had probably come to Crete to start a new and (he hoped) better life. Now he found himself here in Astratigos, lost and over-heating - himself, (unsold) pigs and pickup. With the latter rapidly becoming untenable, indeed unbearable, as the food conversion continued remorselessly in the close-to-him rear of his vehicle. Lost - only 10 minutes (if only pigs could fly!) from his
destination....
He snapped! Nervous breakdown-wise. Face contorting with effort as he hauled on the steering wheel and did the most amazing three point turn before he roared off. In the completely impossible-to-take wrong direction! We haven't seen (or heard) of him since! But is that a smell I see in the approaching haze?
Picture Strip: We had intended to bring back the picture strip this month and indeed have some superb wide-angle pictures and village life scenes which would suit the slot. We had forgotten, in the euphoria surrounding the first two weeks (17 days really) that as soon as the first excitement was over the paralympics would begin! The picture strip - September
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MORE FUN & SERIOUS PLEASURE PLEASE!
To our visitors who have taken the time to tell us that they have found our site enjoyable/ informative/ helpful/ or otherwise complimented the site - very many thanks. We are trying very hard and it's really good to know that you like it". Besides, my wife notes that many of you are ladies! Please don't stop!!
GUEST BOOK LINK
NB. Please don't use the Guest Book to place website links - any URLs - or contact style messages, are automatically disabled/removed in the interests of minors. Questions can be sent to us privately at:
cretanvista.gr
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More Welcome visitors to Villa
Georgios, Astratigos
From Staffordshire, UK
Toni and Peter Sloan, together with their super children Charlie and Tommy (Left to right) made our quick photo-call welcome at the end of their holiday here in north western Crete. The boys were reported missing from their beds at 6 am on the first day - enjoying an early morning swim in the Villa pool. Pity we forgot to get their e-mail address.... We need it for the photo.... Click Photo to Enlarge.
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Here's another Guest Book comment..........
Remote User:13 OCT 2003
Time:23:41:25
comments: .....Alle schreiben in englisch jetzt einer in deutsch wir lieben west kreta kommen schon seit 1986 hierher und kommen bestimmt wieder danke an alle die uns immer wieder freude bereiten besonders an
Signed: 'Haris, Tula, Aris, Maria, Monikaki; Jörg, Toni, Koko, Gorgo, Joana, Dimitri, Manolis und und und........
*Well..... hello 'Htammjtkgjdmuuu' (strange name - maybe code) you obviously did not pay attention to your English teacher! You obviously cannot spell - 'englisch' (English) 'Deutsch' (German) and lord knows what Freud - 'freude' - would have said...!!
But don't go away, we are producing a German Language version for you...
(Sorry!- But I really enjoyed it...WB)
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(Oben: Cretanvista`s Sprachzauberin, Gudrun Harms, die normalerweise in Düsseldorf, Deutschland, lebt, kommt regelmäßig nach Kreta, wo sie und ihr Mann Klaus ein Ferienhaus besitzen. Sie übersetzt die deutsche Version unserer Seite. Gratis. Umsonst. Abgesehen davon – sie ist eine sehr nette Person, obgleich sie nicht glaubte, dass ich ein gutes
Photo von ihr machen würde. Was meinen Sie?).
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