Most of the video is accompanied with the song Summer Rain by the Primitives. The song fits my video very well. It was summer, I walked alone on the road, and for a while there was drizzle. I tried hard to make DV, clumsily holding an umbrella against the wind and rain.
I wanted to take a walk towards a beach from nearby the guesthouse. No one was on the road except me and a few passing vehicles. So I was overjoyed to see a lovely little dog, which seemed to be a godsend from heaven (but was perhaps the dog from a store of the town). I imagined that I was Tin Tin and called it my Milou. And so it had escorted me on the road for a while. Thanks to my little angel, at the crossroads I followed it when in doubt about which road to take. And Milou was right. It guided me to the right direction.
Yet, no road was really wrong there. It's always fine to get lost in any roads among the fields. In fact, in the beginning I meant to go to beach A, but earlier on I had already taken the road to beach B by mistake. It's a happy mistake though. Much farther away, it's just impossible to reach beach A.
And like a heavenly creature, Milou had mysteriously disappeared while I was wondering about the road to take.
(Milou's story: I was enjoying my usual walk every day to find some good snacks. Strangely this morning there's a fool on MY road walking slowly alone. How dare you! That's rare. Usually clever people would speed through the roads with some gigantic and sturdy monsters. This uncivilized trespasser could not speak Greek. Now and then it mumbled something to me in some barbarian tongue that I could not understand. Yet it seemed to call me by the name of "Milooh" repeatedly. At first I was cautious, as it pointed at me with two weapons in its hands. Fortunately it's harmless, perhaps due to its imbecility. Ah, then I smelled a great snack in the field. Ooh, yummy! Soon I got rid of it, thank God! And I remained the KING of the road.)
Ironically, while I was not fond of beaches I was often attracted to beaches. They seemed like good excuses for a little exploration. Finally when I got to see the beach on the cliff, the waves roared, the wind howled, no one was there, the beach looked gloomy -- it's not for swimming, or sunbathing, not even walking.
For a city dweller like me, it's particularly pleasant to walk on these quiet country roads. Though the scenery was not spectacular, it was delightfully tranquil and scenic. There for the first time I saw scarecrows which really looked like scarecrows (of my childhood impressions).
Though this quasi-MV is so far one of the most unpopular video of my hopelessly unpopular (but lovely) channel, I am very fond of this video. It includes some favourite elements of mine -- walking alone, getting lost, pastoral scenery, lovely stranger (the dog), summer rain, as well as my favourite Primitives song "Summer Rain". I could enjoy watching it over and over, narcissistically.
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