Easter Week

 Palm Sunday............

 A traditional fish eating day.  The rest of the week is strict fasting for many.

Holy Monday....

Nice sunny day so I did some washing

Holy Tuesday......

Holy Moly, a miracle.  Cousin Julia's Xmas card arrived, from England, in time for Easter.  Thats got to be a record for the P. O. 

First waterfront coffee of 2026

Locals sitting in the shade in jackets, tourists in the sun in short sleeves

Shopping

2 trays of eggs. That's 60 of them to hard boil and dye red

Spring flowers and a pungent basil plant. Now I have to put them in the ground.

  I already planted my little marigold, the sage cutting and sweet potato 

Saw our first tortoise shuffling up the road. No snakes yet

Wednesday........

Boiling those 60 eggs without breaking any.  Yeh, that never happens.  We are told to add vinegar to the water, salt, or put a cloth at the bottom of the pot so they don't rattle around.  All useless tips.  Some are always going to break or have cracks in the shell.  I'm not in charge of this operation but I get to eat all the broken eggs.

Only 4 or 5 broken, so far.  The cracked ones are going to get dyed with the rest tomorrow.  The dye isn't toxic, they say

'Deaf' Week

 This is 'Silent' or 'Deaf' week for us.  Time to clean house and home and prepare for Easter. I had a haircut and colour yesterday. That's me done. 

The week ends with Saturday of Lazaros and then Palm Sunday

Then it's Holy Week. There's a special church service everyday winding up with the candlelight parade on Good Friday and the great Easter Sunday celebration

K got into gear and arranged for our annual garden clean up

Sani from Pakistan our happy helper

He had a huge smile on his face when I asked if I could take his photo

Ks 'treasures' are still there round the edges but the jungle of weeds has been conquered. He didn't leave a blade of green

This photo is from the internet but this is what we did before Easter every year when we lived in town.  We whitewashed all our steps and walls. 

The municipality white washes the steps and alley ways now. Or they will if the rain ever ends. 

Sani says he'll come back next week and whitewash our garden walls.  What a great lad

Covered in red silt 

More cleaning

Down on the harbour they're sucking this away quickly

Easter

 Holy Saturday and it's all 'go' 

The offal and lettuce soup, mageritsa, is cooking and K is making kokretsi, chunks of liver, spleen, heart, kidneys and the like on a long spit.

Tomorrow the clan gathers.  We won't be spit roasting a lamb, or goat, this year.  He's lighting the wood oven outside and the lamb will be roasted in a baking dish with potatoes.   

The lettuce and spring onion is kept fresh outside with their roots in water

Red eggs and Easter biscuits are made

We give them away to friends and neighbours, and they are fast replaced by more from the kitchens of those same friends and neighbours.

Here's the 'boy' making that kokoretsi, roll of offal, which will be cooked tomorrow, Easter Sunday

Kalo Pasca

 

Happy Easter