Friday, January 1/2010

Stunningly lovely day - the thermometer reads 18 in the shade but it's clearly much warmer in the sun, and there's plenty of sun and mild breeze. We walk out to M&M's along the promenade and past the old fort and the restaurants. Militzi'as crowded as one would expect and doing a brisk business, the outside tables crowded with families out for New Year's lunch.

We're out for lunch ourselves, and Maggi's made a lovely one, starting with Parma ham and melon and moving through Stroganoff to creme brulee. Beautiful way to start 2010 with friends. Check out the view from their roof, which is amazing, out over the bay. And we remember living at the Athene watching the shifting colours of the sea and listening to the waves at night.