That subject again? The one about helpless and hapless visitors wandering the lanes with their noses buried in a mobile phone, certain they are on the right road to somewhere that doesn’t have a street name, let alone an address. Yeah, but not quite. I was reminded of this yesterday when we saw a group of young people, clearly recently arrived by unchartered boat, lost and heading up from the Kali Strata towards the upper village. One of them asked, ‘Police?’ and we directed them downhill. Mobile phones upside down, I assume.
That was an overture to me saying I didn’t need to use the utterly useless (on this island) Google Maps for a walk I took yesterday, one which reminded me of a song from Sunset Boulevard (the music, obviously, not the film which may not have had many songs in it). Actually, a line from a song, and the line was, ‘The early morning madness.’ It came to me as I passed the junior school at 8.00, just as everyone was dropping off their children, meeting other parents, or passing by on their way to drop the younger ones off at the nipo or pronipio (preschool) up towards the Kastro.
However, I was soon out on the road where things were quieter, save for the bus which came up to Lavinia. It will do this if you ask the driver nicely. This is handy if you are staying up at Sevasti which is a fair old hike if you’re not stable on your pins.
Anyway, that was yesterday morning, and this is today morning where the sea out there is calm, there’s no wind, it looks to be a humid but warm day, and where a blank page is staring me in the face waiting to have words imprinted on it.
