Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Night of the living mosquito
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Orthodox Easter
This week is Orthodox Easter, and until this evening it looked like a week where everyone uses their holiday time to hit the shops...scarcely one woman could be seen without a shopping bag or three draped off her arm...stores were open all day, siestas were forgotten....
But then this evening my cynicism was given a shake, when we went on a walk and were sort of called up a hill by the chanting from a beautiful white Orthodox Church.
The chanting was very beautiful and loud, and there were lots of people standing outside the Church like us...just listening , or waiting for the procession, which would come out carrying the effigy of Christ.
we missed the procession as our hunger pains and gurgling stomachs called us back down the hill into baser activities.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
no where to go...
The NGO responsible for the rights of trafficked women found in Athens told me they don't have a safe-house for victims in Athens. What would it take to find a secure home for the victims?
However the statistics show that prostitution is accepted in Greece, with about 1 million males visiting prostitutes, that is half of the male sexually active population.
Monday, April 14, 2008
An Afghan Welcome
On arriving in Greece from Italy, outside the docked boat, there were dozens of young men origin unknown, very poor and dishevelled. and not speaking Greek. They sat on the ground in a line. They were literally the first people I saw in Greece, and now only a few months later, their welfare is a top priority for the UNHCR and European Commission.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
turn on the light and stop!
Sunday, April 6, 2008
More Precious than Gold, more uplifting than Prozac
but tell that to our landlord, she couldn't give a hoot.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Everyone's an expert....
(above is Lemonis, in action on the football field, whilst today he was taking a long time over his coffee, three seats away from me).