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    Cool wee town with an interesting history.

    History of Nafpaktos | Greeka.

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    I fancy a kebab now

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    The finest outdoor eating.

    What's the weather like, has Spring hit properly?
    Still a bit chilly, but everything is beginning to bloom, with in the next couple of weeks it should be in full swing.

    Quote Originally Posted by Reg Dingle View Post
    I fancy a kebab now
    I also like them, but my wife loves them , she can eat them everyday. I am sure she will get tired of them but that's all she wants to eat every day.
    The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    What's the weather like, has Spring hit properly?
    stopped at this field of wildflowers on our way to the costal town of Oropos
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    ^

    Looks like grape vines behind.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PAG View Post
    ^

    Looks like grape vines behind.
    It is!! They are just beginning to bud.
    Just woke up, 7 am church bells not to far were ringing, not for long but enough to wake me up.
    I have to ask the reason for ringing. Probably has something to do leading to Easter three weeks away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai View Post
    Easter three weeks away.
    It's Easter next week, I think

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai View Post
    stopped at this field of wildflowers on our way to the costal town of Oropos
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    Greek eat a lot of seasonal "weeds" or wild greens, if you go to some of the tucked away local restos.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reg Dingle View Post
    It's Easter next week, I think
    Maybe Greek Orthodox Easter. 5555

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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    Greek eat a lot of seasonal "weeds" or wild greens, if you go to some of the tucked away local restos.
    Indeed they do, I had this conversation with friends and they offer to take us out collecting wild Greens. I will take them up one of these days.
    A few years back we went out collecting wild Asparagus. They grow in a thorny bush and the part er eat are the young sprouts growing off branches,
    Last week when me and the wife went on a nature walk, we found a few oregano bushes, and of course chamomile tea plants eevery where, we also found an old Olive tree that looked to be over a Thousand years old.
    4 am here now, and my sleeping hours are still screwed up,I will find the pictures in my phone later in the morning, I dont want to wake up everyone with my noice looking for my phone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CalEden View Post
    Maybe Greek Orthodox Easter. 5555
    Since we are in Greece , that would be a safe bet
    The way it works is that in the Orthodox tradition Easter day is based on the Julian calendar and as such it falls a week different every year , once every four years falling the same week as the Catholic easter.
    This year Easter sunday falls a week earlier than last year and on April 24th.
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    Enjoying your thread BB!

    More food and scenery pics please!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reg Dingle View Post
    It's Easter next week, I think
    Yea you are right,
    Not on the date of easter sunday which is April 24th this year, but the reason for the church bells.
    Easter is a long affair in Greece and takes (I think) 40 days , commemorating the different trials of Christ culminating to the last week , which is really the last week most greeks celebrate , except for the very religious and the church.
    THursday they color the eggs.
    Friday is the Epitafios, where the women (some of them) go to church and decorate an arc that is supposed to be currying the body of Christ with flowers.In the evening a procession takes the Ark out with people following with lighted candles, In the place that I once attended it leads to the local cemetery , where people light a candle on the grave of their parents, and or other relatives.
    A very nice tradition IMO
    Night streets in a Peloponnesian village, lite only by the candles , the sound of the priests chanting, and the smell of Jasmine and lavender in the air. I am actually an Atheist as I Suspect are many others there, but it is a cultural thing and we all enjoy it.
    So Crist is laid to rest and the next day (Saturday)at night everyone goes to church with their Easter candle again . At 12 am the Priest announces "Christ has risen" fireworks are set off in celebration , and everyone's candle is lighted by the eternal flame that is supposed to burn in Jerusalem since the reservation of Christ and is transported to every Orthodox church , much like the Olympic flame.
    I suspect the method of transportation of the eternal flame is a Bic lighter, but don't quote me LOL The flame is carried back home where you mark a cross on the head of the door frame with the smoke of the candle.
    And everyone eats a traditional meat soup (Magiritcha) which tastes great. . I forgot to mention that easter week you are supposed to fast meat, and animal products, and by that time you are starved and anything would taste good, though I have been known to sneak a few Souvlakis before them LOL.
    Next day Sunday is a big celebration with lots of different foods , and we roast a whole lamb on a charcoal pit. Half the fun is taking turns turning the spit , and drinking Ouzo and Rechina.
    Everyone has their colored egg. One person holds their egg , while the other hits it with their own from the top, The one that brake withdraws, and the one that did not continues the process with the next person until there is only one egg that is not broken and that person is supposed to have good luck. People are known to cheat !! LOL

    I will post pictures after it happens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai View Post
    It is!! They are just beginning to bud.
    Just woke up, 7 am church bells not to far were ringing, not for long but enough to wake me up.
    I have to ask the reason for ringing. Probably has something to do leading to Easter three weeks away.
    This just popped up in a FB group that I'm in. The village is Lliber in the Valencia region of Spain, where I formerly lived before moving to Thailand. The buds on the vines are just appearing also.


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    ^^That picture look lovely PAG, Why did you ever leave?
    Today we went to the farmers market at Oropos. It travels to a different place every day, here it comes on Saturday.
    It is a food junkies paradise.
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    Wow, I'd go crazy at the olive stand!

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    Quote Originally Posted by CalEden View Post
    Wow, I'd go crazy at the olive stand!
    Yea me too!
    Funny story. When I left Thailand I weight 163 lbs. In Greece I have been going crazy sampling all the different foods, and when I weighed myself I was shocked to find out that the scale toped at 172 lbs, and I was a bit concerned.
    Finally that last intact brain cell I have left fired up and realized that in Thailand ,all I wore was a pair of shorts and a T Shirt. Where in Greece I wore long jeans, a shirt ,,a pullover ,and shoes. Plus I had not taken a dump in two days LOL
    It gave new meaning to the phrase "You are full of shit"

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    Are those large squid tentacles 5 pics up?

    If so how are they cooked, look damn interesting.

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    I wish NZ had even half the variety of food shown . . . thank again for the pics and thread

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe 90 View Post
    Are those large squid tentacles 5 pics up?

    If so how are they cooked, look damn interesting.
    I should had put some captions with those pictures , mu bad .
    Those are grilled Octopus, and interesting looking is a polite way to describe them. I dd not even try them until about 5 years ago, (I am 65 now) . In a moment of alcohol bravery I tried them and Baby!! Where have you been all my life? LOL


    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    I wish NZ had even half the variety of food shown
    I know how you feel , when I was in Thailand I would had killed for some of the tomatoes they have here. Next time I an at a bakery I will take some pictures , you will gain 10 pounds just looking at them.
    This are a couple not very good , picture from the last time I was here a few years ago.
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    All this sugar is making my head spin


    Thanks

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    Very nice pics, buck. Keep 'em coming. (more food & market pics, pls)

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    Quote Originally Posted by katie23 View Post
    Very nice pics, buck. Keep 'em coming. (more food & market pics, pls)
    What she said!!!!!!!!

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    By popular request for food pictures.Yesterday we had some friends over for a late lunch.
    The main dish that I love when ever I go to Greece is Kokoretsi .it is made from "lamb or goat intestines wrapped around seasoned offal, including sweetbreads, hearts, lungs, or kidneys, and typically grilled; " It might sound unappetizing but , the combinations work. and when grilled to perfection the outside is caramelized, anf the inside melts in your mouth.
    We did not make it, we bought a kilo of it for $22 euros, from a local taverna
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    Everything else we made
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    And consists of a Greek salad top left. Tomatoes , cucumber, kalamata olives that we got from the farmers market, and feta cheese.
    Right below it grilled octopus.
    To the right of octopus and below the bread fried anchovies fish (gavros) and fried shrimp
    to the left of the kokoretsi salted cod fried in a flour butter, (one of my favorites)
    and to the right of the kokoretsi fried calamari
    All washed down with copious amounts of Alfa bear in the green and white can, because Beta beer just won't do. LOL

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