NAOUSA
So today we are going to AnteParos, a two part bus and ferry trip both ways. And if we get stuck anywhere we can look around. But we should be prepared when we get to the bus station.
Yesterday was a full day without very much walking and a rest during the siesta time.
Our room at Efi’s Rooms is bigger than it looked in the photographs on Airbnb. Through
our window is brilliant pink bougainvillea bush and the narrow street that leads up from the harbor 100 yards away. To our right is a
pharmacy, just down the hill is a grocery store
and just beyond it an outdoor cafe where we had a late breakfast yesterday and a little beyond it a car rental place where we found out about renting a car for the day and just beyond that the harbor lined with outdoor tables of restaurant after restaurant. From our covered rooftop there I a view of a blue domed
Greek church and the harbor. Everything is within two hundred yards. All the buildings in row after row up the hill are painted white with blue decorations. The Greek flag is blue and white as are Naousa’s colors. Some of the
buildings are two story residences but a great number are elegant small boutiques with beautifully displayed windows along narrow
lanes lined with potted plants and vines. The roads are stone of different shapes with all of the concrete connections painted white, giving
the streets, overhung with strange leaning trees painted white up to eight feet and bougainvilleas and other plants, many emerald succulents, an irregular checkerboard effect. The result, and not aimed at tourists, is to be in a kind of fairyland.
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 