28th

 Huge celebrations in Greece and Perth today. 

28th October in Greece is a national holiday celebrating the time in 1940 when Mussolini got the boot. He wanted to walk in and take over Greece. Instead the Italian army was forced back over the mountain border into Albania with their tails between their legs.

Long live Greece

The ragged old flags

EU and Greece

All seen better times

And today downunder my brother Paul is celebrating his birthday

One of many 😄

And many more of them bro

We were very happy to have Paul and Karen with us on Poros this summer

Here they are with son in law Kyriakos and his water taxi Socrates

School children getting ready to parade

We still have one granddaughter, Luli, in the celebratory parade and we'll be clapping her again on 25th March

It was a beautiful sunny day on Poros.  The yacht harbour was full

And, as we can't have a blog post without Poppi, here she is!

After the official event there's the rest of the celebration.

A glass of wine and a plate of traditional Greek mezethes (snacks) on the waterfront with friends and family

The cafeterias were full

And because I love country music

Here's Johnny Cash singing about his own 'Ragged Old Flag '

We are flying our Greek flag as usual on the flag pole at our gate.

And the NZ and Australian flags!!!