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My Uncle Yórgos in 1940
As it does every October 28th, contemporary Greece—a nation that, given the current state of affairs, might well be described as living through its final hour—commemorates its second national holiday. This date serves as an echo of March 25th, 1821, when the Greeks rose up against the yoke of the Ottoman Empire to win their independence.
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Due north
Traveling is to be amazed, to grasp what is still possible to learn in order to reflect on it, and then to be amazed! Leaving Athens quickly, we therefore left for the north of the country and its region, as much cultural as natural, of Greek Macedonia.