John Edward Cooper’s Notes
Wednesday 25 May 2022
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[2022] [Tuesday 24 May 2022] Mediterraneo Hotel, Λιμένας Χερσόνησου, Crete 23:20–01:50 Heraklion airport–Leeds Bradford Jet2 LS444 “I was up at 7.45am,” Janet wrote. “I’d had a reasonable sleep, but not enough, really.” I shaved and showered after she vacated the bathroom.… Found that I had a few itchy heat-bumps on the legs. Janet continued, “I’d been wondering, after seeing inside that security locker, if our cases would fit in a couple more — if we could ‘bag’ them. I really feel that I wouldn’t have left the hotel if our bags were there in that unlocked room. So, after breakfast, I packed, then we took a case down to test, and I was ‘made up’ that it fitted, with room to spare. Yes! So we brought the other case down, and put that in security locker №3. Everything was then secure. I only had my backpack to carry, and I’d emptied it a bit.” So, last night, we’d investigated the lockers, and reserved one by inserting €2 into the slot and removing the key. We’d intended to lock our valuables in this, and leave the cases (as most people did) in that room. But when we found lockers free and room enough in each of them for a case, we “bagged” two more. In a way, the hotel’s inability to provide us with late check-out did us a favour, because instead of our having to pay €35 for that, we merely paid €6 for three lockers (plus the €2 to reserve one of them last night). At ca.9.30am I had the first glass of the τσικουδιά that I’d decanted into a water bottle yesterday. I had further tots, but didn’t finish it. I re-labelled the bottle “ΤΣΙΚΟΥΔΙА” and left it on the dressing table when we vacated the room. “We checked out,” Janet wrote, “then sat at the Pool Bar until lunch-time. Whilst there, I decided that afterwards we’d get a taxi to Piskopianó. So we did, photographed a very pretty Greek Orthodox church (not open, unfortunately), then had a drink at the Antidote.” 
Manidakis Taxi Services business card  Map showing Piskopianó and Koutouloufári and places visited or seen  Wednesday 25 May 2022 14:00:08 Piskopianó, view east along Evrópis  Wednesday 25 May 2022 14:00:08 (detail) “Antidote”, Piskopianó  Wednesday 25 May 2022 14:06:18 “Old” church, Piskopianó  Wednesday 25 May 2022 14:06:44 “New” church, Piskopianó  Wednesday 25 May 2022 14:08:58 Bell of the “old” church, Piskopianó  Wednesday 25 May 2022 14:08:58 (detail) Ο ΘΕΟΣ ΑΓΑΠΗ ΕΣΤΙΝ ΕΤΟΣ ΑΝΕΓΕΡΣΕΩΣ 1923 GOD IS LOVE YEAR OF CONSTRUCTION 1923  Wednesday 25 May 2022 14:10:48 “New” church, Piskopianó  Wednesday 25 May 2022 14:10:48 (detail 1) IΕΡΟΣ ΝΑΟΣ ΜΕΤΑΜΟΡΦΩΣΕΩΣ ΤΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ HOLY CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE SAVIOUR  Wednesday 25 May 2022 14:10:48 (detail 2) Ι[ΗΣΟΥΣ] Χ[ΡΙΣΤΟΣ] Ν[Ι]Κ[Α] Jesus Christ Conquers  Wednesday 25 May 2022 14:12:34 East end of the “old” church, Piskopianó  Wednesday 25 May 2022 14:14:40 View south from there: 500m peak of Ώνιο λόφος μυρμήγκι  Wednesday 25 May 2022 14:30:00 In “Antidote”, Piskopianó  Wednesday 25 May 2022 15:05:34 In “Antidote”, Piskopianó “A black feral cat became friendly and ended up on [John]’s knees.” I suggested that we didn’t need a taxi, that we could walk because it wouldn’t be that far; and, indeed it was only ca.½-mile from Antidote, Piskopianó, to The Half Note, Koutouloufári.  Wednesday 25 May 2022 15:13:58 Leaving Piskopianó  Wednesday 25 May 2022 15:15:22 View north at a wide gap between buildings  Wednesday 25 May 2022 15:17:48 Carob tree  Wednesday 25 May 2022 15:18:14 Carob tree  Wednesday 25 May 2022 15:20:36 About to enter Koutouloufári  Wednesday 25 May 2022 15:21:02 About to enter Koutouloufári  Wednesday 25 May 2022 15:23:14 A jolly fire hydrant, Koutouloufári  Wednesday 25 May 2022 15:25:10 Interesting chimney, Koutouloufári “Janina[i] was there (plus a lot of swifts[ii] — also in Piskopianó) and we spent a very pleasant couple of hours chatting to her. We’d assumed she was a local, but she was Lithuanian — and a graphic designer! She spent the winters doing that, and the summers working in cafés as she enjoyed meeting people. It was less stressful too.”
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