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Rest with children or from children
Can parents fully relax, taking restless children with them to rest? After all, they require constant attention: they need to be watched for, God forbid: they do not swim over buoys or bellied uncles, do not step on a lurking sea urchin or a sprawling aunt, do not get a lizard tail on the forehead, or a board surfer. Is it possible to have a good rest with such fidgets? Continue reading
Rhodes – the brilliant boundless sea
“I’m shameless creation — I’m sending a kind girl to where I myself wasn’t, and even with a child on the dreariest island of Greece,” I reproached myself, making a plan for excursions to Rhodes to my colleague, checking with guidebooks and a road map. Two weeks in her absence, I did not find a place for myself, and when we met again, I looked away from her face, covered with fresh tan, uncertainly asked: “Well, how was your vacation? Not very terrible? Continue reading
Kos Island: in the palms of Aphrodite
I walk along the quay of Kos, from the marina, where pretty yachts barely sway on the leash of the yacht, and under their sick sisters, stretched to the land with winches and put on slipways, tanned sailors tinker. I am going to the fortress itself, where a tourist train crawls under the arched bridge with passengers hooting with delight. Continue reading