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!