The town of Lakki on the island of Leros was designed and built by Mussolini and he would come here where he had a summer residence.
The style is Italian Fascist Art Deco. Really bizarre, but we did enjoy it. It is as if South Beach never caught on and grew.
Leros was wonderful, especially after Samos. No English or American tourism presence.
Great food. Last night we went to a seaside taverna by a secluded beach. Tara and I were there in the afternoon and they had some great traditional Greek music playing.
At dinner, she asked them to put the same music on. It had wicked violin that you find with such music. They agreed to play it on the condition we dance to it. Tara agreed, if they would teach us. They did!
We should note that Tassie and Meryl kicked the soccer ball with Niko, the six year old son of the owner of the taverna for about an hour.
The music was by musicians from Leros, and the guy who grilled the octopus for us was the violin player. Every Saturday night they play live.
Magical evening with an orange full moon rising over the water.
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