Der Strand von Agia Fotia (ganz oben). Ein riesiger Felsbrocken ist vor einiger Zeit den Berg hinab gestürzt und hat Teile einer Pension verwüstet.
That's the great thing about the south: even if it's windy and a bit chilly one day, the next day can be like summer again. In the morning already a bright blue sky without clouds, no wind, in the sun it is really warm. We have breakfast on our balcony and decide to go swimming. Early December. We want to go to Agia Fotia, 30 kilometers away, a place where we were in previous vacations often for a few days: a small bay, a pretty beach, calm, clear water. We drive off - and have no idea yet that we will soon be quite shocked ...
Around Agia Fotia, translated as Holy Fire, impressive hills with bizarre rock formations pile up. A scenery you cannot get enough of. Agia Fotia is not a real village, rather a collection of widely scattered houses. And the beach of course - with a few small pensions and a tavern. A narrow concrete road in miserable condition leads down, but you can drive it without touching down. Right on the beach is the guesthouse where we have often been. Now, of course, it is closed, but the access is blocked off with a tape. We go to the water. There is a huge yellowish boulder that does not belong there. Behind it, up the mountain, devastation: concrete parts, splintered wood, a blue mattress. And two of the seven rooms on the top floor of the guesthouse are simply no longer there. The boulder has torn them away.
The accident happened a month ago, our landlady tells us later. A woman, a tourist, had died. I do not want to know how. In one of the rooms, which no longer exist, we also spent a few days some time ago.
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