Summer 2013- more on sea glass

Usually after breakfast and the morning reading I washed the sea glass I had collected earlier or the day before and took photos.
This summer's highlight was this half marble,probably broken marble but very well smoothed.

 Some tiny blues of all hues and a couple of yellows were interesting too.

 A big green.

 And more greens....

 Fishing lights and tiles.

 Sea foam

 Whites

 Tiles and plastic

 A big grey and some other strange pieces.That one that looks black is green.

 That's its real colour!

 And a button

 And a jelly green

  And a rather large blue.

 A strange tile.

 What does it look like to you?

 And another nice one!

 And another hightlight, my first ever real red found by me on my beach!

The total of a week.

Summer 2013-reading

During the morning swim and sunbathe I read books.
I also read a lot during breakfast, after lunch and before going to bed at night.
Therefore I finished 23 books.
O Zitianos (The beggar) by Andreas Karkavitsas(in Greek)
I am hoping that when the Greek Television reopens I will be able to watch the TV series based on this book as well.

Mikra Agglia (Little England) by Ioanna Karystiani (in Greek)
A great book which has been made into a movie which will be shown soon and my husband's Godson Andreas Konstantinou is starring in it.
The adventures of Baron Munchhausen by Gottfried A. Byrger (in Greek). It's fun to read a children's story again!
Pyrina Oneira (The Fire Dwellers) by Margaret Laurence(in Greek). That was interesting and it was great to read a Canadian novelist.

Odos Evridikis (Eurydice Road) by Sofka Zinovieff (in Greek). Good if you want to see how it is to live in Greece through a foreigner's eyes. But I would love to read a book written by an immigrant and not someone who got married to a rich Greek.

O theos ton mikron pragmaton (The God of Small Things) by Aroudhati Roy (in Greek).An excellent book!I was wondering if it has been made into a movie!

It was a summer of lots of crime novels. I really enjoyed this one...
Portobello by Ruth Rendell (in Greek)

I borrowed this one from a neighbour.A one day read of great quality and after thought.
To pempto pedi (The fifth child) by Doris Lessing (in Greek)
I wouldn't ever want to read the next one but a neighbour insisted on my borrowing it. So I read that one too and no I didn't like it.
Peninta apohroseis toy gri (50 shades of Grey) by E.L. James (in Greek). I know the author has written two more books but I don't want to read them. I find this type of books too light and superficial. I might want to watch the movie though!

Prin apo to iliovasilema (Before the sunset) by Manos Eleftheriou (in Greek). Although I respect the author-poet I didn't understand his book!What does the poet mean?
O giatros tis Saragosa (The Saragosa Doctor)Original title The last Jew by Noa Gordon (in Greek). I borrowed that one too!And I have to say it was my numebr one this summer!Absolutely great!

Horeyontas sti siopi (Dancing in silence) by Giorgos Polyrakis (in Greek)That I am told was made into a Greek series and it is on youtube so now I know what I will be watcing in Septemeber! One of those romantic novels that keep you in your book.
Tamerlanos o kardiokataktitis (Tamerlan the heart breaker) by Rene de Obaldia (in Greek) Once again what does the poet mean?
Oi hrysoi Karpoi (The golden fruit) by Nathalie Sarraute (in Greek) I didn't understand much of this one either. I guess poetry is not for me!
Barca by Sandro Modeo (in Greek) A book about my favourite football team.
In the frame by Dick Francis (in English)
High Stakes by Dick Francis (in English)
Smokescreen by Dick Francis (in English) All these three books I borrowed from the school English library and it was a good read too.
Two more mysteries by my favourite Ruth Rendell in one volume...
Put on by Cunning by Ruth Rendell (in English)
An unkindness of ravens by Ruth Rendell (in English)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (in English) an excellent book indeed.

Dear John by Nicholas Sparks (in English).This was one of the three books my dear friend Dawn from the States had given me last year and I so loved reading it. Although the book is good the film I watched afterwards was very shallow.
The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks (in English). The book is very good and I plan to watch the movie soon. I have become a fan of Sparks really.I still have one more of his books to read. It was in my 20 books list for the summer reading but that and one more Greek book that I gave away as a gift are the ones I did not read from the list. But I read the three borrowed from the neighbours in the beach house so that was good too.
If I had to rate and recommend the best books I would say The Last Jew was the first, The God of Small Things was second, On Chesil Beach was the third and then I would add all of Ruth Rendell's and Nicholas Sparks and Dick Francis as very good reading.

Summer 2013-sea glass in situ

After swimming I spent quite a while collecting sea glass every morning. And although I didn't find as much as last summer I at least found some really beautiful pieces.

 Whites of course...

 and some tiny blues...

 and a part of a marble...

 and turquoise...

 and some greens....

 and some coins.....

 and a tiny orange heart ring.....

 and insects....

 and a yellow piece....

 and a tiny fluorescent.....

I even found a red piece this summer!

Summer 2013-the sea

So after sunrise and after playing around with shadows and light usually we took Barca out and we soon realised how great and calm the sea is early in the morning. So we decided to make it a habit to swim early in the morning and away from the harmful sun. Barca spent the time with us under the umbrella, hubby did some fishing and I swam, read books and collected sea glass.
And of course I took photos.The view was fantastic almost every day!

Enjoy September!

So here we are in September already!
I can't believe how fast this summer went by!
I can't believe there are things I want to blog about not only about summer but since May and even a trip I took earlier in the year!Where does time fly?But I really don't want to be online that long and I don't want to get anxious about blogging. It is supposed to be fun, right?
Anyway we are typically in the beginning of Autumn!
Usually on the first of September teachers go to school but since it is a Sunday we will be going tomorrow.
We wanted to spend this weekend at the beach house but there were storms and lots of rain in the area so we didn't bother!

Here I would like to take the chance to say that unfortunately my son did not succeed at the entrance university exams he sat in May so we will have to see what he will be doing this year.Keep your fingers crossed for the best solution!Lots and lots of students failed the exams as the level of difficulty was too high, really too difficult, especially in Maths, my son's best subject.For some reason I think the Ministry are trying to send students to the private colleges.But we don't have the money for that!Good luck to all students who will be trying again next year and congratulations to all those who managed to enter the University of their choice!
Anyway here I'd also like to wish all the best to all those teachers who are starting school tomorrow.
It will be a difficult school year for Greece!