"Can we go to Amorgos for a week?"
I am ashamed to say that I've probably asked this question at least once a week over the past two years and a half.
"When would you want to go?" - wait - this is an opening. I think about an answer that would make sense, something that is actually doable.
"Last week of August - the crowds will have left by then, and days are not too short yet"
"Fine, let's do it"
Before her can change his mind I grab my ipad and within 5 minutes I have booked the flight to Mykonos, the fast boat that luck has placed at the perfect time from Mykonos to Amorgos, and the small place they were still building last time we've been there, a small house right on a small cliff by the sea that has private stone steps leading down to the water and a patio right above.
The place I dream to own, the island where I dream to get old and spend the rest of my life.
Amorgos, the dream of The big blue (but I'm sorry lovelies, English is not enough to render Le Grand Bleu, and even if you had seen the French cult movie, you would have seen the silly American version which was changed from the original as the French one lacked a happy ending, and was stripped of half of the poetry in the process).
Amorgos, where the blue is so deep that the sky seems dark. The island that Homer already deemed dry, I've never been so late in the summer: will there be any green left, any water trickling in the valleys? The golden steps of Panagia Hozoviotissa will be there for sure, unchanged.
3 comments:
Looks like heaven. I've seen the Big Blue both in France and Australia and it was exactly the same 🤷♀️ only recently though did I learn it was heavily dramatised and only bears a fleeting resemblance to the actual people.😅 I think I'd prefer not to have known. It looks like an awesome place to retire.I'm sure you can make it happen.!!Omg there are some amazing places around here too. 😀 but man I am sick of it. Sometimes I feel blessed but other times I'm jaded AF 🤣 shelby
Hi darling,
in the US version, at the end Jacques Mayol jumps out of the water with a dolphin.
Although I would not describe it as a bio-pic, as after all Luc Besson was only inspired by the two divers, there is an interesting reality: the real Jacques Mayol did commit suicide, 11 years after the movie came out. There is no record on the causes of death of Enzo Maiorca.
Looks like a place worth seeing. I am not sure I could retire anywhere other than where I am at.
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