The last week of March.

How time flies.March just ends in an hour.And I can't find time even to blog.
I am so glad I love taking photos and so usually I have those to remind me of events as well as I can add them to the blogpost without too many words and make a proper blogpost. Or at least that's what I think!
Anyway last week...
I tried macarons for the first time and I wasn't really impressed! I still prefer meringue.

I made sweet potato fries and loved them. In fact I made them in the oven not in the pan.Along with a red pepper omelette. (No, this is not a recipe blogpost!)

We celebrated the 25th March National Holiday at school and at home with the family and you can read all about it in the previous blogpost!

We attended a shadow puppet performance by Thodoris Kostidakis. He was very good.

 As the weather all week was rainy and foggy we didn't walk much!Cold too!
Look at these photos of light and shadow near the theatre where we attended the performance.

We volunteered had our own shadow puppet performance for the children and friends of Amymoni, who support children with blindness and other special needs.

They had their Easter bazaar where I bought some gifts but will be showing them when they are received.

The kind and thankful people at Amymoni thanked us with gifts too.

Then on Saturday we went casting for subs for a movie at a hotel in the city centre.There were hundreds of people there.

And on Sunday we started filming!

But more about the experience of making a film in the next blogpost!

25th March National Holiday!

We are off school today as it is the National Holiday of 25th March 1821.
It is raining of course! So almost everywhere around Greece the parades were done under rain. It was funny that this year no bars were put around the politicians to protect them from angry civilians. People could attend the parades and enjoy them and afterwards they could dance to traditional dances! Excellent!

We didn't go to the parade. We stayed in and prepared a special dinner for the family!

Mum made her popular cod fish croquettes (salt cod nuggets)with garlic sauce, I made the salads, tomato and green salad, along with octopus salad. And the dessert orange pie.

Here are a couple of photos taken from yesterday's festivities at school.

 The tsolias (Greek presidential guard) was made at school by our talented Art teacher Ms Yiota.

25th of March-Independence Day

We have a glorious sunny but chilly day.
There is a parade but again the police does not allow the people to reach the parade avenue near the politicians attending. This time we won't go to the parade.
We will spend the day with the family at home eating mum's famous salt cod nuggets.
I will try and take a pic and edit this blogpost later.
Till then I will leave you with the lovely paintings of our school Art teacher that decorated yesterday's school festivities.

25th March long weekend

Long weekends have their beauties even though we don't spend them as we would like. In fact I wanted to be in Athens with my relatives but I couldn't go.
So we stayed at home.Ι decorated with what reminds us of the celebration.
I put the beautiful embroidery Marabeth had sent me on my big table.

I put the flag on the balcony.And the wind blew it beautifully.

I attended the school 25th March festivities and had coffee with my colleagues.

I cleaned up as usually. We had the week's two rehearsals.
We enjoyed a night out with the Drama club friends.
We had fun walking Barca on the sea front twice with the sun and the wind blowing.
She met with Luna, the neighbour's dog, and other dogs,too.

Spotted a left over kite tail hanging from the street light.

Long shadows.

We had coffee with my brother and sister.
It was fun watching the people going up and down the sea front in the sun.

And suddenly a pirate ship sailed by.

(Sorry both photos were taken from inside the cafe hence the window reflections)
And on the big Independence Day we went to watch the parade where we used to go for the last 40 years. But the new strict police measures made us walk far from home as people were not allowed to reach the parade near where the politicians and VIPs were. I was so disappointed.
The weather was cold and overcast and didn't change my mood. I was angry. Not to be allowed to go where I used to go to attend the parade for 40 years really made me so sad and angry.

There were some people demonstrating after the parade for the Cyprus crisis too.
I only managed to see very little of the parade.

And afterwards we had lunch at my brother's with all the traditional food of the day, fried cod and garlic sauce.