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geordieborn:

--- Quote from: Jimbo on August 19, 2020, 04:23:05 PM ---Mistral has been great for years. Some locals and some from Sidari. Lovely fresh food. Spiros has taught me some obscure Greek words over the years. We really miss it. It's peaceful, very few people, and if we walk from there across the bridge it's like going to Clacton on a bank holiday.

Made some nice friends on that quiet beach, and done a lot of writing sitting in the shade with a Mythos, a nice view, and the prospect of fried zucchini and meatballs for lunch. Really miss it this year!

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Eat your heart out Jimbo as looking over the video of 1993 it was all like that, single row of brollies then on the Clacton side. Mind you I did also spot 2-3 cars down near the Vicky... One was way down trying to squash the nudies I guess...

Dupnica:

--- Quote from: Karen on August 18, 2020, 08:37:30 PM ---Of course it belongs to someone and it's a piece of wasteland, maybe  they could charge a small fee :)

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Over the years I've seen Hotels ,apartments and shops built on what some might consider pieces of wasteland.  When they started building next to Pele and Maria's we wondered what it was going to be and were told it was to be a hotel. There's no room for a hotel there surely we thought , but lo and behold by the following year there was The Little Prince. Likewise Thomas Bay sprang up between September one year and the following June
 Fedra Mare was built on a bit of scrub land where Manthos used to keep his chickens and turkeys.
 Just goes to show one man's bit of wasteland is another man's Real Estate.
 
 No there weren't so many cars years ago , not many of the locals had a car and there weren't the number of tourists that there are now. We used to sometimes rent a car from Dino , anyone remember him?  He used to live opposite Olympia, sadly passed away a few years ago.  His cars were a bit ropey but they got us around and he was the only rental option in the village.

geordieborn:
Sadly it is one of the things that worries me looking at the videos, who is still there! But some of the images make me realise how much the place has changed over the years. I'm sure I've seen other pictures much, much older that Peter has at the Kamimi Bar in the draw behind the bar. This is my last effort showing how little there was on the beach at Jimbo's favourite end... When you actually see the end of the beach where outside of Mantos, Mistral and Waves in 1993/4 it looks awful, partly the seaweed, but also filthy with rubbish. Still there was us sitting next to the fishing boat oblivious of it all (that one I'm not allowed to capture :-[ ).

Karen:
Great pictures Geordie...thank you :)

diane13:
Yes geordieborn thank you for putting the photos on - really interesting to see :D

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