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Mastihari Local News sheet

What's on!

All the news, all the year round about what is happening in the village - within the parameters set by the lack of reliable information and the waiting till the last minute for everything!!. Don't wait with bated breath for anything exciting though - very little happens.


 

Lupins

 

    

Every year there are wild lupins growing near our house but I have never seen as many as there are this year. They are beautiful.


 

     

Send me your favourite photos of 2009 so you can enjoy them through the cold winter!!

daphne @mastihari-uncovered.com

 

        

Thanks to Heidi for the cat in the fountain and Corinne for the lovely reminder of what the harbour looks like in the summer. Even I need a refresher at the moment.


For UK visitors to this page, www.Jet2.com are starting a new route in to Kos from next year. Prices seem to be very competitive and it would seem to be worth checking out. From what I understand this is a rather better class budget airline!


Easyjet;check their site - flights direct from the Uk,Italy and Germany, 4 times weekly. Apparently, there are not more flights scheduled for this year because the agreement was late being finalized but the suggestion is that these will be increased substantially for the season of 2011. There is also talk of 2 flights a week operating through the winter months from 2011. I have to say that would be heaven for those of us living here.


Ryanair are starting flights directly into Kos, Rhodes and Volos in May.They are flying from Milan, Pisa and Frankfurt. A winter timetable is expected to be launched in August. Good news for us here!


There was indeed a local bus waiting at the airport when we arrived home early in January- and it is directly outside the arrivals hall door. This will be calling in Mastihari on its way to Kos so could service many of you arriving independently. At the moment the timetables tie in with the Athens flights but there will be more services in Summer.


Borsalino coffee bar is for sale if anyone might be interested.

The Village Grill is also for sale at a very sensible price.


 

The Casa Romana in Kos has finally re-opened after years of restoration work. You may remember that I was lucky enough to get a look inside last year, and it is spectacular. The work that has been done seems to have been done very well and the overall effect is beautiful. Definitely worth going to see and entrance is free.

Reports from people who have visited are very enthusiastic and having been I can only agree with them.

I have been twittering on about it for long enough so here are some photos which may decide a few more of you to go and visit.

    

The house is built around central courtyards with magnificently decorated columns. Even the tiles that you can see on the roof are as they would have been when the house was built in the 2/3rd century.

    

The house still has amazing examples of mosaics depicting tigers and dolphins among other things.

    

It is quite humbling to stand in front of a wall that was built more than 1,700 years ago and still see traces of the original colours on the plaster work.

    

Restoration work is still on going and it is hoped that the fountains will be playing again in the courtyards of this fascinating and very important house.

Thanks to Sam and Susan for sending me the photos of the Casa Romana. The thing about it is that from outside you would never imagine the treasures that are contained inside - a great surprise.

 



     

11th March 18 degrees

 

Yesterday afternoon was lovely with warm sunshine. Today we are supposed to have white fluffy clouds and sunshine but I think not. Look at the photo and you can see we are once again living in a dust bowl - unless it is cloud and it rains! The wind is getting up which makes it feel cooler than it is and I just hope we don't get the gale force winds again that we have been having.

 

 

 

 
     
Note - temperatures that are shown are between 08.00-09.00 in the morning and in the shade so you can safely assume that it gets quite a bit warmer as the day goes on.

Thank you to Bob Christy who has very kindly (and willingly!!) created this weather chart and then made it to fit here!!

It is the temperature chart from Kos airport which gives a reading every 30 minutes and it is from the 1st Jan until the end of December (2009) so you can see what to expect throughout the year.. The temperatures in the village are 1-2 degrees higher.

   


Wild Flowers

         

The flora on this island is amazing so I thought it might be interesting to see what is in season throughout the year .

 Beautiful bright yellow wild broom (Genista) and a plant called Common Asphodel which is everwhere as it is unpalatable to grazing animals. Greek mythology links this plant to the Underworld!


Storm Sagas

    

He really can't help it! He has to carry something about when we arrive home and in this case it was an old sheet which I had put outside. He ended up completely tangled up in it.


                                            

Keep a weather eye on this page for what's coming up in the village.

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