Monday 26 November 2018

Harbour View

My view from the cafeteria. End of month payments done and time for a monthly wine and meze


One of the priests from the Monastery on the mainland hurries for the taxi boat to cross the strait.  He has probably picked up his pension from the bank and paid a few bills too.  

There is an uproar amongst the  elderly heirarchy of white beared Bishops at the moment because the Archbishop of Greece came to a 'historic' agreement with the Prime Minister.  Up till now family priests were/are public servants and get paid by the state.  The PM and the Archbishop have agreed that the 10,000 priests will be paid by the church.  The government will then hire 10,000 public servants from the thousands of unemployed and 'impoverished' greeks.  Sounds like another good election ploy. Will this further step to separate church and state pass parliament?
Will that band of long white bearded Bishops allow this to happen?

We watch and wait.




Not a completely clear photo.  The woman driving the little blue car has one dog hanging onto the steering wheel and another yapping on the seat beside her.  Of course neither she, or the dogs (ha) are wearing seat belts.  But even the police don't bother with seat belts here


The car ferry sounded its siren all the way across the bay and every car on board was tooting their horn as well.  They must have been carrying the groom across to his wedding at the church on Galatas, along with his entourage.   

'Yeah, breaker one-nine............
Mercy sakes alive
Looks like we got us a convoy"

One of my favourite songs



T-Cafe
All we wanted was a glass of red wine and an ouzo but our friend, the owner, brought over a bowl of potatoes and kebabs and another of roast pork and potatoes

Our favourite cafe!

12 comments:

  1. food sounds delicious. All economies seem to be suffering right now and I can only see it worse post Brexit. What is the housing market like there at the moment?

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    1. Housing market is slow I should think. Not much moving around here. Too many taxes

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    2. Hmmm interesting. Our friends say that there was talk of a house we really liked being sold as the lady is going to live with her son in the city...

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  2. Now that is a friend, to treasure!!!!!! Yummmmmmmmm!!!

    Don't worry about seat belts, in Paradise. ,-))))

    Should ticket her, for yapping dogs, though!!!!!!

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    1. Her dogs are darn nuisance. There used to be three, small yappers, but one ran under the wheels of the harbour police jeep......when he should have been on a lead

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    1. again - I just realised that was my comment on your last post.

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    2. It's probably the answer to most of my posts! One day I'll tell the other side of the story

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  4. You'll probably find that the government will now secretly pay the church to pay their priests, and that the church will sponsor the 10,000 new jobs created by the savings. No, I don't understand either!

    Nice looking meal.

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    1. You're on the ball. The govt will subsidise the church and there's probably a lot more we don't know!!

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  5. This here is the rubber duck!
    Lol love that movie and song
    The weather still looks lovely there. It’s still miserable here

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  6. That's very interesting about who pays the priests and what the government wants to do. No separation of church and state there. But where is there truly, they run hand in hand.

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