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Naar Limnos, Limnos en naar de heilige berg Athos
... lijken de meesten in groepsverband te leven. De monniken komen overal vandaan Rusland, Bulgarije, Servie en Roemenie, maar worden Griekse staatsburgers als zij in de heilige communie hun intrede doen . Waar al deze gebouwen voor dienen is me een raadsel. Wel kun je als man of jongen met toestemming van je vader een bezoek brengen, maar ook hier zijn strenge regels van toepassing. Naast imposante gebouwen zien we ook auto’s en ...
ESCAPE Confernce
This last week in Greece we have spent at the ESCAPE Conference in Porto Carras Resort. It is located in the Macedonia Region where there are 3 peninsulas. It is a popular destination for Greeks vacationing. The G8 Summit and the European Summit were held at this resort a few years ago, very nice resort!
I mentioned that I was to go on a tour to the Mt Athos (around it, not to it!) but we quite literally missed the boat and didn't ...
Ferry, Buses and more buses
Saturday May 28th …today we are traveling from Skiathos to Thessaloniki….the ferry to Volos left Skiathos at 2:15 pm, so we had to catch a ride from the hotel down to the bus stop , then caught a bus to the port to catch the ferry. The ferry ride took 2.5 hours and was really nice…once we got to Volas we had to find the bus station, we asked about 5 different people and got 5 different directions. Finally we came across 2 English girls who were coming from the ...
Watch this on Mt Athos
I am going to do a boat tour around Mt Athos on Tuesday while Dave is at his conference. I spoke with a few people at the opening reception about the experience. They allow no women at the Mt and men must have special permission to visit. So I decided to find out more ...
It's A Mans Mans World...... Mount Athos.
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... not recognised as such by the UN. What we observed from our 500 metre exclusion zone was the monks don't seem to be living a life of austerity, with modern vehicles and speed boats in the bays. They live in very large regular style houses as well as the larger monasteries. Some 2000 males currently live on the peninsula, including Monks and employees.
According to my guide book, the Virgin Mary it is said, was blown off course by accident ...
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