We drove into the main town on the small island of Meganisi. It wasn't a town as we know them, in fact we'd hardly class it big enough to be a village, but it was a very bear friendly town in that it was just the right size for us to explore on foot, having parked our buggy.
It was quite nice to experience some peace and quiet again as the buggy engine did give quite a roar and, as there didn't seem to be any young ladies around, the effect was rather lost and we weren't able to attract any admiring glances. We did see a lot of old ladies dressed in black though.
One lady in particular caught our eye and we went over for a chat. She was a very friendly weaving lady.
She'd never had a bear to teach weaving to before, and she later said that we were much faster learners than humans. We spent a lot of time admiring her handiwork. Her speciality seemed to be those table runners that you see a lot on dining tables in property make over programmes such as Property Ladder. Us bears don't really understand them, as they only seem to be partial table cloths, but then we've never been trendy. This made us all the more impressed that the influence of Sarah Beeney had reached this remote corner of Greece. Fancy this old lady being more with it than us!
On our way back down to the harbour we suddenly did an emergency stop, not quite sure if we really had seen what we thought we'd seen. It looked like an enormous bear at the end of an overgrown field.
We called out, but if he was a bear, he was too far away to hear. We did think that we did detect a slight movement of a paw which could have been a wave to us. We consulted our minders who had appeared and they thought it might be a bear. Having had an opportunity to enlarge our picture once we got home we're more convinced than ever that it was a rather shy Greek bear. Click on our picture to enlarge it, have a look at the brown shape and see what you think.
Lots of love, George & Yorkie xxx
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