Thursday, 1 June 2023
Run Run Run
Monday, 29 May 2023
Monastery Views
There is one Monastery on the island, Zoodochos Pigis. The name means 'Life giving spring'. Google says that its a medieval monastery (1773) and has a few rare icons. There's only one monk there usually with some of his family and a few hangers-on.
I know that from the entrance, up quite a few steps, there is a great view of the bay below and the mountains on the mainland opposite. Women cannot enter wearing men's clothing, wrap around skirts provided in the entranceway. If you enter wearing trews, or shorts for men, and the monk is around then you'll get told off.
There's a spring down below whose waters are supposed to have cured Archbishop Jacovos 11 of lithiasis, gall stones or kidney stones. He decided to build the Monastery where this miracle took place. And Hey Presto, here it still is today. One of Poros's few sites/sights to see
Monday, 22 May 2023
And Here We Go Again
Celebrations and jubilations
Two name days and General Elections. Three more grand-children voted for the first time.
Voters gave a victory to governing right wing New Democracy party but not enough to form a government. We will be back at the polls on June 25th.
We celebrated two Saints Days. Half the family is named after these two saints and I squeeze myself in there too. There's no Saint Linda. Not around here anyway. I pretend I'm a Lydia and the observe a name day along with my grand-daughter
20th May ...
Saint Lydia
21st May ...
Saints Konstantine and Helena (Eleni)
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Celebrating Again?
Yup, here we go again. One of the grand-daughters became a godmother last weekend. She and another girl baptised, or the Priest did, a bouncing baby girl. As Godmother she could invite her family to the ceremony and so it was another family get-together.
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Here are the 2 godmothers reading the ....Apostles Creed, I believe it is called in English. That prayer that begins
Monday, 8 May 2023
Another Celebration
We have just celebrated our 44th wedding anniversary. And what a celebration it was. We went to a local taverna for a quiet family night. It turned into a night of music and dancing
What we didn't know was that the taverna was having a live greek music night. And what nobody knew was that at the long table where visitors were celebrating a coming wedding there was a saxaphone player, with his sax, and a professional singer.
It started off with the usual greek songs which the wedding party all got up to dance to and then the dynamic french singer stood up and picked up the pace. The greek singer who was running the music night knew a whole range of songs and together they gave us a concert of italian, beatles, toe tappers and back to greek . The saxaphone player began his mellow accompaniment and the taverna erupted in cheers and clapping. In days of yore there would have been some plate smashing too.
Sunday, 30 April 2023
May Day
Friday, 28 April 2023
Spring Colour