"In the middle of nature we are nothing," he says.
And then I ended up in the rainforest, slap bang in the middle of nature.
I can practice any time and I'm in the middle of nature".
As a child, taking the funicular railway from downtown to Mount Artxanda was magical, going from sad Bilbao to the middle of nature.
The Catalan surrealist, whose paintings were the subject of a retrospective at Tate Modern last year, believed that "a sculpture must stand in the open air, in the middle of nature".
And there you are, in the middle of nature, with your carpets and your hair straighteners and your table with the Sunday papers, and you're pretty much lady of your own glen.
It fills the night like a marsh full of spring peepers, whose ringing peep is said to be at E and F, four octaves above middle C. Nature may not intend this symmetry, but I can't help liking it, the way we're piped into April and piped out again in September.
£465, +30 69441 56679, surfclubkeros.com; family-friendly Where to eat Mamas Kitchen (as above) You are rather in the middle of nature at the Surf Club, but don't be alarmed as Mamas Kitchen will provide all your needs, from a fresh breakfast to a chill-out area, and then Greek taverna classics in the evening.
"It's very special to be among this group of cutting-edge specialists, right in the middle of nature," says Yakovchenko, who first came here for a summer school last year and has since founded Optiplane, a startup company focused on developing drones for cargo deliveries.
You're out there, in the middle of nature, just enjoying your heart beating.
