It was a wonderful room to wake up in ...

    "... Dreamless nights came to an end with no harder shock than that of a boat's keel grounding on a lake shore. Sunlight streamed in through the three tall windows and, as I lay in bed, all I could see was layer on ascending layer of chestnut leaves, like millions of spatulate superimposed green hands, and the crystalline sky of October framed by the thin reflected blue-white, or thick milk-white, or, where the sun struck, white-gold surfaces of the walls and window-arches and embrasures."

    From A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor.

Comments

[Dark Puss]

I do hope you have read Roumeli and Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese and want to make some of those journeys yourself.

[Iza]

What a way to wake up :)

[Fran H-B]

Calming words for such troubled days. Must get my copy out again for a re-read.

[Cornflower]

No to those books but I'll add them to my list!

[Cornflower]

Yes - lovely!

[Cornflower]

I so enjoyed it, Fran, and the idea of a retreat in such a 'nourishing' place is all the more appealing in these strange times.