The British Residency, Gaios, Paxos

Yesterday I took the Flying Dolphin to Paxos, on business. I left at 8.15 and came back at 2.45. I took my bicycle.

The main square and the sea-front road in Gaios are looking very handsome, newly paved with attractive stone plakes.

The Paxos Beach Hotel now has a swimming pool and similar paving stones in the area surrounding it.

The former British Residency in Gaios, is in an appalling state of repair. It has deteriorated greatly in recent years. This is one of Paxos’s most beautiful and important historic buildings.

Swimming pools and villas proliferate in an island without water, while historic cisterns, windmills and buildings are allowed to collapse. Sad. This was the island of my mother-in-law.