In the second post of this holiday series you might have detected a degree of not complete contentment about this year’s destination. That isn’t really accurate, but certainly has some truth to it. Greece has it’s downside as well as it’s upsides, and we’ve certainly been to more attractive parts: in fact every bit other than Zante has had better scenery, beaches, tavernas and archeology.
The reason we’ve come here is the people.
Daphne and Iannis who own the hotel obviously set the tone, but as we’ve come to know some of the others here, we find that we’ve been drawn to them too. It’s tempting to describe them, but we don’t know them that well, and there’s always the danger of kindly humour in one language feeling like a dreadful insult in another.
And there have been others too.
One couple I may have mentioned already, grew up in Woodside and New Addington, quite close to Croydon and South Norwood where we were children.
Another couple, German by birth but South African by relocation in the 70s have also become friends. Sadly she has terminal cancer, and we’ve spent a sad yet happy evening in their company. I hope we’ll stay in touch after they fly back tomorrow. I’ve wanted to talk about Jesus, and maybe there’ll be opportunity this evening, but this also requires sensitivity and reality, rather than a bald gospel presentation or worse, an apparently opportunistic insurance policy sale. I pray we have grace to speak, sense to stay quiet and wisdom to know the time for both.
Wonder who else we’ll meet?
Hope Ben is OK, house/cat sitting.
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