Blogs from Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece, Europe - page 5

Week 43 and 44 in Greece. Mon 14th Sept Neighbour Kirio George wheeled his wheel barrow to Mama's with corn cobs and some melons for our chooks from his large vegetable garden. The corn cobs were stripped down and the actual corn kernels put out to dry for the chooks to eat at a later date. Mama started them and did 20 cobs before Michael and I did the rest. I got a blister on my right hand from the repetitive action on my palm, near my thumb. When I was returning from a walk up the street, one motorist threw some stuff out for the recycling bin and I wagged my finger at him, and he must have thought I was waving to him, so gave me a nice smile and a grin. But when ... read more

Today was the last day of the summer school (the actual conference starts tomorrow). Since one of the speakers today got sick and cancelled at the last minute, we had half the day off, so we went sightseeing. So without further ado - pictures. Shana Tova to Everyone... read more

We arrived in Saloniki after 3 hours on 2 planes, and about 6 hours waiting in airports. The hotel seems pretty nice, and we met some other people from the conference, and had lunch with them. Not much else to write about, everything is fine. ... read more

Ale zycie mnie po dziwnych zakretach prowadzi! Juz w poprzednim poscie pisalam, ze zdradzilam stopa na rzecz pedalowania, a jednak plecak na plecy zarzucam i w droge jutro ruszam ponownie! Moje 10 probnych dni wspolnej podrozy z chlopakami minelo i poki co bardzo mi sie podoba. I pedalowanie i towarzystwo. Okazalo sie, ze dobra intuicje mialam zabierajac w ta podoz buty biegowe, bo miesiac przed spotkaniem chlopakow biegalam prawie codziennie. Nie wiem czy dalabym rade wydolnosciowo gdyby nie to. Teraz mamy juz z Tomaszem, moim rowerkiem, pol tysiaca kilometrow za soba. Zdobylismy Olimp, wspielismy sie na meteory i wlasciwie jakos w naturalny sposob coraz czesciej rozmawiamy z chlopakami o wspolnej dalszej drodze. Juz nie tylko Turcja i Cypr, ale tez i Afryka sie w naszych rozmowach przewija...Doszlismy wiec do wspolnego wniosku, ze skoro tak, no to ... read more

Thursday 23rd July The lights of Salonika look like a jeweled necklace when seen from a vantage point not far from Mama’s house. On the TV news last night, a Greek farmer was saying he has to grow 10 kg wheat to get sufficient money for the cost of a loaf of bread. ( 70 Euro cents for a 370gm loaf) Michael used the electric chain saw, the axe and sledge hammer to cut out the rest of the unproductive olive tree that they had cut down last Sunday. Michael said because it has lots of knots in the timber, it is relatively easy to cut into chunks whilst it is still fresh. But if you leave it to dry out, you won’t have a hope After tea, we took a photo of the two storks ... read more