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| The cutiet Billy (Davey) Goat ever |
December 6
Last week we re-located to Halkida, a more urban area. Some might even consider it a suburb of Athens. Halkida is an hour out of Athens on the island of Evia. The Pelion was much quieter and more isolated and instead of walking ancient paths in the mountains we're walking ancient paths pounding the pavement in Athens. Last week was still warm and humid here but today winter arrived.....feels more like fall to me.... it was 5 or 6 this morning which is normal for this time of year.
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| the nanny goat escaping |
Natalie lives in a two hundred year old farm house that her grandfather had bought as an investment. It used to be surrounded by vineyards, olive groves and orange groves but clearly suburbia has gobbled up a good portion of the original estate. We are using the stakes from the old vineyard to build a goat pen. Last week we moved the compost and this is to become the future duck pond.
No olives but lots of oranges. She still has an orange grove in front of the house and the trees are loaded. We've been squeezing fresh orange juice every morning and eating at least one a day along with learning how to incorporate oranges into our meals and make Greek style jams and marmalades.
Took the bus into Athens yesterday and spent a whole day being a touris,t and we weren't the only ones. There were still tour buses everywhere, the Acroplis was crawling with people ........ if it's this busy in December what must it be like at the height of tourist season, all I can say I'm glad we're here now with a few less tourists. Of course one day is not near enough time but it's good to break these kinds of things into manageable chunks.......so, so much history to digest and make sense of.
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| The Plake- tiny little houses directly below the Acropolis |
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| The Acropolis entrance |
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| the theatre |
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| The temple of Zeus as seen from the Acroplolis |
Highlights...the bustling markets, the Plaka with these tiny whitewashed houses built on top of one another, the Temple of Zeus and of course the Acroplis.
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| My favourite .....the chandalier |
We didn't make it to any museums (hoping to do that next weekend) but you might say we're living in a museum. Natalie's grandfather was a sea faring man and collected things from all over the world in his travels. There is no shortage of interesting things to look at in this home and on the property. They even have a cache of coal ??? maybe Black Peter stops by here in case he needs some for those naughty children???? Natalie's house is all decked out for Xmas already, hope you all are moving into the Xmas season with happy hearts and good cheer. We're thinking of you and hold you all dear in our hearts.
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| The huka (hooka) pipe I don't know what he's smoking |
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