The Lotus Eaters

Locations
1987 - website visitor Janet Thomas outside the bar 1987 - a (much) younger webmaster, Dave Rice, with daughter Danielle "Shepherd's Bar"

Michael Glynn (producer) says:
"The exterior of the quayside bar at which many of the The Lotus Eaters scenes were played was, before our designer repainted and dressed it, a desolate, dirty boarded-up uninhabited building staining Aghios Nikolaos's quayside. Some of the building's interior was used as the unit's property store.

It was amazing to find in the cellar, attractive drawings on the walls, still in reasonably good condition. The locals told us that during World War Two the cellar had been used by Italian soldiers and their artistic ability had been preserved for all to admire."

The Shepherds' Bar as it looks in 2006

As the picture on the left - courtesy of website visitor (and Aghios resident) John Harraway - shows, today it is a restaurant.

Or is it?

In " Off the Beaten Track" a short feature article published in the KO-GO Khronicles (the bilingual Newspaper of the Gouves Township - Crete) in September, 2007, writer Tom Feise stated that the bar "is a jewellery shop these days".

( John Harraway assures me that although the building has been a number of things in its time the latest incarnation is the restaurant. I guess you'll have to check it out for yourselves ....)

The Cemetery
cemetery near Neapoli Ian Hendry in the cemetery near Neapoli cemetery near Neapoli Ian Hendry in the cemetery near Neapoli
Towards the end of the final episode there is a scene filmed at a cemetery in the mountains near Neapoli. Ian Hendry's character has come to say goodbye to the people he had loved and lost during the series.

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