Despite spending most of the holidays sitting around drinking iced coffee and looking at our android devices, we did more stuff:-
Our guide was a local lady who forewent her siesta to show us the house in extreme detail.
Following the house visit we were summoned to the local museum for a private viewing. This is housed in a building that originally contained the first electric power station in Greece.
Miscellaneous goings on:
Visit to Athens
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| We fed the beach dog |
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| Famous for aubergines, we drive south to Leonidio Λεωνίδιο |
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| By asking at the cafe, we managed to find a guide to show us one of the restored merchant's houses |
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| Multi-level splendour from the 1800s |
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| A typical courtyard, somwhere to keep the donkeys and servants |
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| Wooden ceiling |
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| The first floor salon |
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| Our delightful guide |
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| ceiling art |
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| The potty |
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| The potty exit |
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| Byzantinic motif |
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| Girl holding spear and aubergine with face painted on ? |
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| Local Tsakonian costumery |
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| Local non Taskonian |
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| The history of motorcycling in Leonidio |
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| We drink a toast of local aubergine liquer (?) with our museum guides! |
Miscellaneous goings on:
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| A recommended fish taverna at Aghios Andreas |
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| A grass hopper |
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| Worse than vodka, our friend Manolis serves home made tsiporo... |
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| Manolis explains what the local mountain herbs are and what they do to one |
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| I have always wondered where this road leads to... |
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| goat track |
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| table under tree miles from anywhere |
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| At the end of a long track there once was a waterfall, now replaced by an information board |
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| ...and don't fall off |
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| Impossible to get lost down town |
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| We stay by the coast |
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| BSA |
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| Mounted Athenian cavalry cops - soon to be seen in London |
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| We walk through the National Gardens |
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| All the "news! at Syntagma square |
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| So it's goodbye from me |
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| Driving back to the village we see smoke - another forest fire |
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| Canadair fire bomber to the rescue |
Funny to me to see a police bike riding two up and to have the pillion texting at that. No way would you see two on a police bike here unless a patrol car broke down.
ReplyDeleteA very common site in Athens - normally all the bike cops are seen drinking coffee so I did not dare photographing them....
DeleteInteresting local fauna. Let's skip all that cholesterol related stuff and go for tsiporo & idiotaetes, sounds promising I think, best consumated at this table ...
ReplyDelete..or under it
DeleteSo when the waterfall was replaced by an information board, where did they store the waterfall?
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In the fridge!
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