We’re into the first week of February and winter in Greece is really settling in now. The past few days have seen highs of 9 to 10C and lows at night as low as 7. As I write this today, the high all day has been 8C and presently in the evening, it’s 7C. Now, […]
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Back in Ontario, I never worried about giving any of my plants, including tomato plants, too much water. No matter what I did, everything usually always turned out great. If it was hot, I’d give them all water. If it hadn’t lirained in a couple of days, I’d give them water. Another thing I’ve never
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Last year, the olive oil harvest in Greece was almost a total write-off, and that included my wee olive grove as well as most of the other olive groves in the local area. Many people have tried to blame the horrible year on “drought,” but that is not really true. Perhaps drought in other parts
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It’s not a great photo, but the best I could do at the time. We had arrived in Exarchos the evening before, and on Friday, decided to head out of the village to check on the olive grove and see how things were there at the end of February. While driving along the road, I
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Unfortunately it is not a great photo and does not do justice to the mighty power of the winds and seas this evening along the coast of Lavreotiki, in Greece. We finally have a real taste of winter weather beginning today after a fairly mild month of January. We even saw snow flakes coming down
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January 6th is a big holiday in Greece – and considered by many to be the last day of the Christmas Season. Most businesses are closed on this day, the Day of Ephiphany or as some call it, “The Three Kings Day.” The religious holiday celebrates the day of Jesus Christ’s baptism by John The
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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;
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As I wrote the other day, we were in Exarchos to help with harvesting olives that are going to be pressed into olive oil. On Sunday, it was raining in the morning so a decision was made to cancel that day’s planned work. So, after it stopped raining, I decided to head over to my
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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.
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One of the must-sees if you visit Kea is located just outside the village of Ioulida (also called Ioulis), and is accessible via a foot path in Ioulida, or from the other side near the Benjamin Spring. This stone sculpture apparently dates back to the 6th Century BCE and and its origins remain shrouded in
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