He is an old man, almost ninety, tall, with piercing brown eyes. She is a nice looking lady, a few years younger than him. She has amazingly lovely smile. Around dusk almost every evening I see them…
CHRISTMAS #1
Christmas is a feast but the days leading up to it are the 40 days Fast. Though this Fast is not so severe as the Lent before Easter it also includes days of strict fasting and days of abstinence from…
MARILENA’S CHOCOLATE CAKE
This little girl has grown into an eighteen years old young lady, shy, funny, smart, passionate, dreamer… She is a first year student in Archaeology at University of Volos. Being away from home for first time gives her…
AN ACT OF GRATITUDE: BAKE A CAKE.
One must sacrifice to the gods for three purposes: to give honor, to show gratitude, or because of one’s need of good things. (Theophrastus, On Piety, frag. 12, Potscher, 42-4). And in return, the ancient gods were pleased with the expressions of…
A FOUR DAY TRIP TO PELOPONNESOS
On Friday before EU elections, my husband, me, and 2 friends with their kid, drove to Foinikounta a small coastal village located on south –west Peloponnesos (Messinia Prefecture), for a four days camping. Despite the dinstance ~ about 4 hours…