Greece in brief

Yesterday

As I was making dice-dictated decisions about the future

(With a dice I found miraculously in a cave at Delphi)

(A cave I spent several hours bricked inside)

I asked about this blog

Options ranging from

Full annihilation

To full resumption

The dice chose number 4

Update with locations and something brief

So…

I’m in Leeds

I’m back from Greece

18 days there

The first nine on mountains

Alone in the sun

Blissful solitude

And realising

Wow

In the city, with all its people and possibilities

I feel so alone and bored

And sitting here

Quietly under trees

With nothing to do and no one around

I feel full and complete and content

Slept five nights in a monastery up a foot-only trail

Ate beautiful monk-cooked food

Saw turtles, both alive and upturned and dead

Fed wasps

Hacked through trees

Scrambled up rock faces

Felt young again

Felt close to God

Felt restored

And back in touch

Realised

I really can trust myself

At odds though I am

And saw my future

Then I left the mountain

Became a tourist

Tasted the good and the bad of that

A night sleeping slap bang in the middle of Athens

Ten feet from a fellow homeless man

A day at Delphi

Meeting genuine goddesses secretly chanting to genuine gods

Drinking out of ancient holy springs

Sitting happy in that bricked-up cave

Sleeping in Itea under somebody’s porch

Hitch-hiking all the way to crazy, horrendous Thessaloniki

But there meeting a monk

And talking for four hours

On the bus to holy Mount Athos

My one night in a hotel in Ouranopolis

Where a dream tells me

“No more solitude mountain nature time for you –

Go home!”

And so home I go

But not before racing up Mount Olympus

In world record time

And the beauty of the hike from Litochoro

An hour in touristy Meteora

And then finally some fabled Greek hospitality

God

Miracles

Providence

And nature

A really wonderful trip

Which I will write about lots

And maybe share in full
One day

And now

I'm in Leeds

100% happy

And looking forward

I can’t believe I lost myself!

And I’m so very grateful to be back

He smiles

He smiles

He smiles