I’ll be back

I’ll be back to the blog later this week. Meanwhile, a few more photos for today and then I will leave you in peace until Friday or Saturday.

Hugo found, all is well

Hugo has turned up alive and well, but with non-working phones and laptop, hence the silence from him and concern from everyone else. His family are very grateful for everyone’s attempts to locate and assist, though I fear he might now be in deep doo-dah from his daughter and wife. Still, good news.

While we’re familying and not having much time or brain space for blogging, here are a few photos of the last couple of days to give you something to look at.

Hugo Tyler: An Appeal

Good morning. Today, I am simply copying and pasting two posts from Facebook which many readers may have already seen, but I am sure there are also many who have not. I know nothing other than what’s in the posts. The details of how you can help are included. Hopefully, this post will be redundant by the time you read it, but if not, please read and get in touch with Hugo’s daughter if you have any information.

APPEAL – Hello Hugo ‘s friends (I’m his daughter fyi). We have lost contact with Hugo over the last 3 days (he’s is in the Ukrainian alone on holiday). He was in touch every day before this but we now can’t reach him and we are very worried. If you have had any contact with him (email, phone etc.) since Saturday can you please send me a message on here [Facebook – Arwen Tyler] or email me – a.i.i.tyler@leeds.ac.uk. Many thanks for your help.

And:
Our friend Hugo Tyler has been missing since last Saturday while he was traveling in the Ukraine (Odesa was his last contact). He sent his daughter an email on Saturday which is the last time she heard from. His phone had WiFi signal until Monday and he has 2 phones and a laptop with him. If anyone has heard from him since Saturday or if he’s happened to mention the hotel name he was saying at please let his daughter know (a.i.i.tyler@leeds.ac.uk) or the Greek or UK police. Many thanks.

Yialos

I’ve not shown you any photos of Yialos for a while as I don’t get down there much at this time of year. Some were taken from the balcony, others while pottering around last week. Meanwhile, up in the village, we at our house are looking forward to the arrival of the family on Thursday. It will be the first time I’ve met my grandson, so that’s something special. The temperature has stabilised a little, with cooler early mornings, but it’s still hot in the sun, of course. It’s also been windy in the evenings. I’m not sure if that’s the Meltemi, but it’s welcome in a ‘close your shutters before they are ripped off’ kind of way. I now need to dust everything in the house – again – but that’s hardly a high price to pay for cooler air. Anyway, without much news, here are a few random shots taken recently in or of Yialos.

More walks and photos

I felt cold on the balcony yesterday morning. Mind you, it was 4.00 a.m., and there was a wind blowing. The temperature was probably in the high 20s, but I had to put on a t-shirt. We were both out on the road before the dawn, which is happening around six o’clock these days. Neil has this routine of going down the Kali Strata and then back up the road, and then reversing the direction and doing the circuit again the other way, sometimes jogging down. That’s not for me. I did the steps the other morning, and my knee was painful for the rest of the day. When I do three miles up the road and down, which is all slope and not steps, it’s fine. So I will give the ‘Kali’ a rest of a while unless I have to use it.

We are preparing the house for the family visit which starts on Thursday. This has involved removing a bed which isn’t ours from the spare bathroom where the ceiling paint has flaked and dusted off, hoovering the ceiling and floors, washing it down and putting the mattress outside to air while the frame goes up in the mousandra in pieces. We also need to buy three more pillows today; hopefully we can find them in town, otherwise, we’ll have to use cushions, and we don’t have many. Then we need to find another mosquito repellent machine, another fan (we just bought one from the Chinese shop, and on setting three, it’s so fast the thing reversed across the counter), and finding suitable sheets. It will all be done in time for when we meet the Sebeco from Rhodes on Thursday morning. If the blog goes ‘dark’ and I miss days, you will know why.

Meanwhile, the festival is well underway with dance shows and plays, music and talks. There are loads of visitors from Athens and elsewhere, our neighbours are back from France for their three or four weeks, and the island has become the holiday home to many from Italy and Greece, which is nice to see.