I came across your story by chance, and felt “at home” within the first few words… I, too, have come to Pelekas many years ago, and I have been going back there for the past 12 years.
What you describe - and more importantly, how you describe it - has happened to so many people I have met there… Coming there by chance, and finding sth one didn’t search, or hope for.
My friend Christos always says that Pelekas is a place for people in transit: Between school and studies, between relationships or marriages, between jobs, between a round-the-world trip and going home, between rehab and a way back to normal life.
If you are lucky, you can find a lot of answers in Pelekas… If you are VERY lucky (like me) you can find yourself there.
Thanks for the great writing and the wonderful memories.
Hope to see you there one day,
Julia