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| Church in the hills |
Once again we are moving on, which seems a silly thing to say as the whole point of travelling is that you move on!
Where were we? In or near Sparta or as the locals call it Sparti, with Phil and Shema, we had a great time with those guys. Meg did a variety of jobs from sewing again (!), varnishing a floor, sorting toys, helping with the cooking etc. I helped with the removal of their stored furniture from a cellar in Sparti to various locations in the village of Varassi, up in the hills to the north of the city. I also laid a new floor in one of their two houses (not the one Megan varnished) but another. After 2pm it was just too hot to work 35 - 38°C, so we had to have a cold beer and eat the main meal of the day, then a snooze, and then more beer! We talked and laughed our way through the whole 10 days.
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| Mystras |
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| Megan in the citadel |
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| Inside a Mystras church |
We visited Mystras, up in the mountains the other side of the city, on our ‘day off’ it was good, walked all the way to the citadel at the top and back down via different route, we had cats as guides – one for each level hoping for payment – we had nothing to give except euros and they didn’t want them, I wonder why?
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| Working hard |
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| View of Varassi |
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| Megan, Lola and Meli |
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| Waiting for a train |
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| Ancient Edessa |
So back through Athens – picked up our India visas, stayed with Lena again, we went with her to a name day celebration, more important than a birthday, up a hill opposite the Acropolis at night all lit up and joined in the celebrations which included some of the guests playing and singing along to a guitar. Magic.
So now we are in Edessa for a few days on the way to the Helpx placement (the seed bank) at Parasnesti.
This our third blog in a few days, sorry, but time just concertinaed up on us.
good to hear from you after so long, merl and I thought we saw Chris demonstrating in Tahir Square Cairo on last nights news, so that could have been where you went!
ReplyDeleteNot Chris unless he slipped away in the night. We've just not had internet access for a little while.
ReplyDeleteYou make light of the work that you've done - enjoyable though elements of it may be. Judging by the "waiting for a train" pic, you've both lost weight!
ReplyDeleteI note you're back near Bulgaria.I wonder how abruptly one country "morphs" into the other?
Consistently your pics show such sunny days - to enhance your experience even more, I report that, again, it's pouring down here!
Alf
Countryside and architecture starting to look more like Bulgaria, but by the prices we are still in Greece.
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