Christmas Eve

 8am

Christmas Eve preparation begins

Downtown all the kids are going from house to house banging triangles and singing the traditional Xmas Eve carol . These young singers are considered a blessing for the home and they are rewarded with a few euros.

K always hopes a child or 2 will appear at our door but we are too far away now. He has a few euro notes put aside just in case.

Down on the harbour Poppi's class did the rounds of the shops and cafeterias.

They are in their last year of high school and are raising money for their big 5 day trip at the end of the school year.

I missed all these traditional activities, as usual. It would have been nice this morning to sit in the sun, drinking cappuccino  watching the passing parade of children warbling away....instead of cleaning and cooking.

Baking the Christopsomo, Christ bread, is also one of the duties K has taken over. If he makes it himself he knows it has been made as his mother used to. No chance of any foreign ingredients tainting the loaf. 

It's your normal bread with some anise, decorated with a cross made out of dough and with walnuts and almonds arranged 'artistically'.

We were both very busy, hopefully making tomorrow an easier day.

Time for alcohol.