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| A midsummer night's dream... on Petraki |
At the end of last year's six-week trip around the Odyssean sites of Greece and Italy I found myself staying on the night of my 70th birthday in a great hotel just off Syntagma Square in central Athens [see this blog An Odyssey in the Year of the Plague – 13: 29 September - 4 October 2020].
On the last night of this year's mini-odyssey Odysseus' Island writer Jane Cochrane invited me to join her and a Greek cousin of her late husband for dinner.
We all met at the Syntagma tram stop... and then the cousin led us to a restaurant she had chosen for the occasion, in the very same street as – and just across the way from – that excellent hotel I had stayed in in 2020.
It was an almost-too-good-to-be-true coincidence and it made a lovely farewell evening even more emotional.
That hotel in Petraki Street, by the way, used to be called the Athens La Strada. Now it's changed its name to the Villa Brown Ermou.
A year brings many changes of course... but will covid continue to be with us? And will there be An Odyssey in the Third Year of the Plague?
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