As some of you may know, at the end of November, we spent a weekend up in Exarchos, Central Greece, to help with the olive harvest – olives that were to be pressed into olive oil. We were not there for the entire harvesting – but even the hours we did spend were hard work; …
It was a chilly 2 degrees Celsius when we all woke up around 7:15 in the morning, on November 26, 2022. I’m not really a morning person and hadn’t had a lot of sleep but I crawled out from under the heavy wool blankets about 15 minutes later and felt the chill in the air. …
As some may know, I purchased a small olive grove last year, more as a hobby than anything else. It had been abandoned for a few years and there was quite a lot of work to be done to try to trim and cut weeds that had literally grown so high and thick, the trees …
Olive Grove Recovery After Brutal Winter At Exarchos Read More »
One day last August, I was in Exarchos (in the Phthiotis Prefecture) and woke up early in the morning and took some photos which I published here, Morning Walk In Exarchos Village. Over the Easter (Orthodox) weekend in 2022, I took quite a few evening walks, including one on Saturday, April 23rd. The weather was …
Some readers may know that last year, the purchase of a small olive grove near Exarchos was finalized after a long time of trying. This olive grove had been abandoned from quite some years and had been overgrown with weeds. Last summer, we managed to attack and clear out most of the weeds, but there …
I arrived in Exarchos, located in Central Greece within the prefecture of Phthiotis in the evening of the 8th of August. Whenever I travel, my schedule is upended – sometimes it means I have much energy and can’t sleep all night while other times, I end up waking up too early. This happened to me …
We took advantage of some great weather and headed up to Exarchos which is located in the prefecture of Phthiotis, central Greece. We did have a big reason to go but because it was such a nice day, we decided ahead of time that there was no rush to get back and we’d just drive …
A quick post with a photo I took of a passion flower – went for a hike along a “back road” near Exarchos in August. While walking along, I came upon a hedge bordering someone’s house property and the road, that included grape vines and what I later discovered, passion vines. In Greece, this is …
Sometimes Google translate does not get things right at all. When I tried to translate the Greek word “Ταξιάρχε” with Google Translate, Google told me it meant “Taxi Drivers.” In fact, the term – Taxiarches – in English/Latin letters refers in Greek Orthodoxy to one or both of the archangels – Michael and/or Gabriel. In …
Saints Taxiarches (Άγιοι Ταξιάρχε) Church, Exarchos, Greece Read More »
Getting packages to Exarchos, Greece is not the easiest thing in the world…. recently, I had occasion to order some photographic lens filters from the United Kingdom. A seller on Ebay had two filters that I wanted for my Nikon D7000 camera, while another seller in Poland had a battery charger for the same camera, …