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Naar Limnos, Limnos en naar de heilige berg Athos
... De berg Athos is dus de heilge berg voor de Grieksorthodoxe gelovigen en mag alleen betreden worden door mannen met baarden en i s echt verboden voor vrouwen. Als we te dicht bij komen worden we door de prive coast gard weg gestuurd. Het moet toch een vreemde wereld daar boven zijn. Al 10 eeuwen lang wonen daar monniken in absolute isolatie van de buitenwereld, sommigen wonen solitair en andere in groepsverband met ingewikkelde codes. Gezien de ...
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... amount of coast line with beautiful beaches, not your typical Euorpean rocky beaches and lastly I hear the islands are very different from one another and worth visiting....
One last thing...I forgot to mention the famous Greek drink of Ouzo...it's a killer when you drink too many...I'll say no more.
We hope to return to another conference in 2013 on the island of Rhodes near Turkey ...thanks for following our blog!
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Ferry, Buses and more buses
... of buses! The resort is beautiful but not very Greek looking, very modern. I can see a town not far off so we will walk there today. The area is really cool, mountainous and full of hotels and beaches. This country is a country of beaches. This is like a huge Catskill area for Greece. If you look at a map of Greece we are in the Macedonia region where there are 3 peninsulas, we are on the middle one to the southern tip of it. We are off to find food and Internet access, none in the ...
Watch this on Mt Athos
... around it.
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It's A Mans Mans World...... Mount Athos.
This is a top pick!
... just by way of their sex, and the site is dedicated to the preservation of the memory of the Virgin Mary!
The peninsula of Mount Athos has a wall stopping anyone from entering by road and has always been cut off from the rest of Greece, making it effectively a private island. The monks are not answerable to Greek Law or taxes, but run their community through their own Abbots, and so effectively as much an independent country as the ...
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