These drawings carry a really strong association with the the scent of lemons. Pearl was sitting under the shade of a huge lemon tree in the garden of a villa in a tiny hamlet called Horto on the Pilion peninsula of mainland Greece. The tree was our source of shade from the blistering sun and the children were happy to amuse themselves with an ancient hand operated water pump. A near perfect experience of a family holiday punctuated by minor incidents such as the small smoking piles by the adjacent river which on further investigation turned out to be the local method for eliminating snakes. We met a local olive producers son who had hopes of reviving his almost extinct (Trabant?) vehicle with some help from Andrew. This proved fruitless but he still rewarded us with supper on his beautiful terrace overlooking the sea cooked by his elderly mother, who never actually appeared in person.
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