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Epitaph
Good Friday. The Epitaphios has already been prepared. Christ is dead. Throughout Greece, as elsewhere in the Orthodox world, his icon, or more precisely his shroud—a large, luxuriously decorated embroidered cloth—is displayed.
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Stray cats
Visitors to Greece have all observed the omnipresence, not always discreet it must be said, of animals that in the land of the Myrmidónes are called simply “adéspota”; literally: those who have no master. In other words, they do not live under… the authority of a despot, who is moreover a member of the human race.
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Due south
Southern Greece, and first of all the Peloponnese, undoubtedly correspond to the fashionable stereotypes about travel in Greece. And yet…
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Spring Prelude
In the Greek country, we only wait for Spring. Its beginnings are already appearing, particularly in the southern part of Hellas. Everyone is actually preparing to move into the new year, finally the real one.