I was sent this picture by email from Jeffrey Cox. I don’t recall seeing it during my recent visit. Does anyone else know anything about it? Is it some mythical character?
Greetings Tom.
I read your notes on your recent tour of Paddy’s house near Kardamyli.
Last April my wife and I also arranged a private tour of the house through Elpida. I had been alerted to a portrait painted by Paddy’s friend Nikos Hadjikriakos-Ghika on a rock exposed in the wall just inside Paddy’s front door. Here it is. To my mind it’s an amazing work – quite 3 dimensional.
Last weekend Britain based travel writer Dominic Green did a piece for our National broadsheet (The Weekend Australian) entitled “On the trail of Patrick Leigh Fermor” – plenty on Nikos but no mention of this portrait. Are you aware of it? Regards, Jeffrey Cox
Patrick Leigh Fermor 
Hi, I found this interesting article in which the author reflects on what it means to be given a literary gift. He writes about his first reading of A time of gifts’ and the effect it had on him. I thought you may find it interesting too. The article can be found at:
http://lithub.com/the-gifts-of-reading-are-many/
Regards
Mike Haines
Brent: Yes, you were! A great trip, no? Miss you and Elaine and everyone else very much. All the best, Billy
I saw it this past June while traveling with the PLF Society’s “In Paddy’s Footsteps” tour though Athens, the Peloponnese and Crete. A photograph of it along with other photographs along the way are posted on my Instagram feed under the name “billyapt”.
Hi Bill, missed that and was right with you!
A Colossus of Maroussi ?