Volume 3, Issue 1
January 2010
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A Smashing New Year!
A Reality Shot!
A couple of recent visit to the Pharmacy in Roda once more opened our eyes to just how differently everything works. Why we continue to be surprised, I do not know but this is what happened –
Needing a series of injections every day for 10 days, an interruption of the weekend would spoil the course of treatment. I saw the pharmacist on the Saturday, as pharmacists are qualified to administer injections here, and enquired about getting the injection on Sunday. I was told to be at the shop at 10am the following morning. We duly arrived to find the keys in the lock and the door ajar. Hesitantly, we pushed the door to the chemist open, all was quiet inside and the lights off everywhere except in the back room where I had previously been for the injection. We waited and after a few minutes Alexandra appeared along with someone who had also needed an injection.
Needing a series of injections every day for 10 days, an interruption of the weekend would spoil the course of treatment. I saw the pharmacist on the Saturday, as pharmacists are qualified to administer injections here, and enquired about getting the injection on Sunday. I was told to be at the shop at 10am the following morning. We duly arrived to find the keys in the lock and the door ajar. Hesitantly, we pushed the door to the chemist open, all was quiet inside and the lights off everywhere except in the back room where I had previously been for the injection. We waited and after a few minutes Alexandra appeared along with someone who had also needed an injection.
I went through to the same room with Alexandra following and the injection was administered. How much was I charged for this service which brought the pharmacist out on a Sunday morning – Tipota! Absolutely nothing. There was no charge for this and in fact it is part of a pharmacist’s duties to offer this service. That morning, Alexandra had ten patients who needed injections before she could lock up and continue with her day off!
Another occasion again found us at the Pharmacy in Roda. This time, we were both waiting for our anti-flu jabs.
We were told to go through. We waited in the store room surrounded by shelves holding stacks of medication and pharmaceutical products. We were alone for several minutes as the chemist was busy, plenty of time to have filled a couple of bags each of boxes of drugs and other items – but that’s not what happens here. On the whole,
Another occasion again found us at the Pharmacy in Roda. This time, we were both waiting for our anti-flu jabs.
We were told to go through. We waited in the store room surrounded by shelves holding stacks of medication and pharmaceutical products. We were alone for several minutes as the chemist was busy, plenty of time to have filled a couple of bags each of boxes of drugs and other items – but that’s not what happens here. On the whole,
most local people who not even dream of taking advantage of the time waiting alone in a chemist’s stockroom. The thought of stealing would be furthest from people’s minds and so asking customers to wait unsupervised in the back room is simply not a problem, here in Roda.
Two examples of how local community is still very much in operation here, thankfully!
Two examples of how local community is still very much in operation here, thankfully!
Well, we threw our own Rodi (Pomergranite) on Proto-Ianouariou (1st January). Our fruit seemed to spill a generous amount of seeds, so we are hoping that means lots of good fortune for Roda, the community & all her friends.
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never cultivating a life-long relationship with people from a different culture. Now that does broaden the mind!
Most serial travellers have delighted in visiting some of the world’s most spectacular destinations, places that our parents could only read & marvel about. It must be quite exciting to plan next year’s exotic venue and the sense of anticipation must help to get us through the long dark days of a northern European winter. One Greek friend has visited many of the world’s famous sites from the Pyramids to Paris and from Marrakesh to Madrid and it is fair to say that she has enjoyed every one. What a wonderful way to spend your winter, you
might say but, when you get back, you are so exhausted by demanding schedules, drained by travelling and probably 10kg heavier from wining & dining. And what is it that you need most on your return home? – another holiday to get over the first one!
Many of us, however, have found a solution – spend 10–14 days on a once-in-a-lifetime extravaganza, and then have a quiet couple of weeks in your favourite resort. Here, there is no need to take fancy clothes, no need to worry about safety in unfamiliar places and no need to spend too much. This is a real holiday in the ‘at-leisure’ sense as opposed to a frantic sight-seeing mission – it is a chanced to relax with old friends, laze around the pool, lie on the beach and have relaxed evenings amongst familiar faces. Over the years, this has been the secret of Roda’s success – it is the perfect ‘home-from-home’, a place to feel comfortable and at ease and where ‘home-sickness’ seems to work in reverse with tourists pining for the village as opposed to their permanent homes.
It would be nice to visit all those far-flung destinations that spring from the pages of glossy magazines & brochures, but it would be a crying shame to see every one of them in your lifetime at the expense of
Many of us, however, have found a solution – spend 10–14 days on a once-in-a-lifetime extravaganza, and then have a quiet couple of weeks in your favourite resort. Here, there is no need to take fancy clothes, no need to worry about safety in unfamiliar places and no need to spend too much. This is a real holiday in the ‘at-leisure’ sense as opposed to a frantic sight-seeing mission – it is a chanced to relax with old friends, laze around the pool, lie on the beach and have relaxed evenings amongst familiar faces. Over the years, this has been the secret of Roda’s success – it is the perfect ‘home-from-home’, a place to feel comfortable and at ease and where ‘home-sickness’ seems to work in reverse with tourists pining for the village as opposed to their permanent homes.
It would be nice to visit all those far-flung destinations that spring from the pages of glossy magazines & brochures, but it would be a crying shame to see every one of them in your lifetime at the expense of
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