Dancing in the Corfu rain like nobody's watching
It's quiet now after all our village festivities. A cool wind whips through the plateia as a handful of people sit under the Narnia lamp post . And it is bliss. It's been a week now since our panigyri and still the days and nights have been pretty humid. 'The weather will start to change after the 15th,' we were told by our weatherman Canadian George, as the summer celebrations built up to a crescendo last Thursday to mark the dormition of the Theotokos . With the end of our long line of visiting family and friends, things have become calmer but the weather is still hot. After almost ten months in Greece, I am no longer like a holidaymaker, craving for sun. I sit in the shade whenever I can. I enjoy the early mornings, when the days are at their coolest. How chambermaids cope with changing hotel beds and cleaning in this heat is beyond me. They deserve a medal rather than a pittance. And I now understand why a siesta is so important to the people who work ...