jug of black-on-red Iv ware with composition of ‘Eros and Psyche’ on shoulder, Cypro-Classical I period (475-400 BC), Polis Chrysochous-Karydies (ancient Marion)

9.8.21 The Bay of Chrysochou in the morning.

I sat in Argaka, at a new café called ‘Caretta Caretta’, situated on the shore. I was enjoying the wide view of the bay and the sound of the sea, when the lovely owners arrived. I ordered a lavender lemonade, but had to finish my painting note rather hurriedly, as the music, abruptly turned on, was loud and sounded like a midnight rave party. So sad that man-produced sounds are rarely in harmony with the landscape of this land.

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