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The Icing on the Cake?
When you look at the beautiful mountains covered with snow, sometimes it really does feel that you are getting the icing on the cake living here. But let’s bring you back to earth. To get all that lovely snow and the pretty picture involved some seriously wet weather. Buckets? Ha, ha ha. Now, we know we’ve probably told you before that when it rains here it really rains and that as far as we can tell there is no real word in Greek for ‘drizzle’ (well if there is in Greek, there certainly isn’t one in the Cretan dialect). Even so, the most recent January rains were something else, and Zeus, if you are listening, we really hope that you have got whatever was bugging you totally out of your system. It was a seriously impressive temper tantrum. But of course, we do love the rain and the resulting greenery. The flowers are already starting to come out! And it’s carnival. Brilliant!
February Highlights
On our ‘Community Too’ page we give you our report about the great First Aid Course conducted by the Samaritans from the local branch of the Hellenic Red Cross. On our Spotlight page we become space cadets and somehow we have managed to give you a tale about illegal haggis. And, of course there’s news from around town, details of local community and charity events, the recipe and the crossword and much more!
About ‘The Bugle’
The Rethymnon Coffee Morning Bugle is an independent, monthly FREE publication that was started in January 2007 by the same team responsible for the www.rethymnon.biz website — Kate and Luc Brusten, who have been living and working in Rethymnon for a number of years. The Bugle is geared not only towards the international community living in Rethymnon, but also towards anyone who has an interest in the town. The aim of the publication is to be both informative and light hearted. We welcome feedback and written / photographic contributions from readers. We particularly welcome feature articles that have a Rethymnon slant; if you are considering submitting an article we would ask that you keep to an upper word limit of 500 words.
You will find our contact details and a listing of hard copy distribution outlets at the bottom of our This Month Page.
We hope you enjoy reading our February issue!
