This long weekend....

It started on Thursday evening. We went to attend the presentation of a book written by a fellow teacher Martha Patlakoutza.
It is called "Zahara" and the presentation was done at Proto Patoma cafe by the Teachers' Association Drama Club. Hubby and I decided not to take part but simply attend!It was a cozy evening!

 Then on Friday morning we had the school festivities for the 28th October No Day celebration.

And on Saturday morning we happily started for our beach house in hubby's new car. Yes after 20 years he bought a new one.It's a Citroen C3 Picasso, a very beautiful car, convenient and with lots of space for hubby's Shadow puppets and Barca's cage. We bought her a cage to transport her as she is car sick all the time.It is better in the cage.

 When we arrived at the beach house we realised there had been a burglary at two of our neighbours and we were really upset. The police was called and the owners came and it spoiled our whole day. Fortunately nothing much was taken. Since these are summer residences only, people don't invest on expensive things in them.Still a breaking in is not the most pleasant of surprises!
To relax a bit I walked the beach and collected some sea glass.

 The sea was calm. It would be lovely to swim but I felt it would be cold.

 Barca didn't think the same. She jumped in and enjoyed it!

I loved the colours of nature that day but didn't take too many photos as I was feeling rather shocked and sad because of the breaking in.

 It was a bit foggy in the horizon!

 But still the sea looked wonderful!

I then washed some of my finds along with some left overs from the summer.

 I did a bit of gardening.I added lavender in a pot.

 I collected the fallen leaves.

 I spray painted some stones in gold having some ideas to make for Christmas!

 Then hubby and I went out for lunch, tsipouro and appetisers.

 Barca of course wanted to have a snack, so she ate some of my ice cream!

The rest of the day was relaxing and cozy.

And the sunset once again was wonderful!

 The rest of the weekend was in a similar pace!
And when we returned we went to watch the parade about which you can read in yesterday's blogpost!

Have a great long weekend!

It's a long weekend for the 28th October 1940 celebration.

Today jets were flying in the sky making aburdly ominous sounds and people were walking at the sea front enjoying the warm weather and looking at ships and a submarine!

Enjoy the weekend!

NO-28th October (1940) 2011

Greece is celebrating today the big NO the Greeks said to the Italians in 1940...
today all over Greece another big NO was said to the politicians of Greece.The big NO of the simple every day people who are suffering of the various false policies followed for years in this country.
The big parade in Thessaloniki where the President of Greece was to attend was cancelled. People shouted for freedom, equality and justice. The President left and the rest of the parade took place with only the simple people attending it.We unfortunately overslept and were not there but watched everything on TV. At first the governement and the politicians were upset because the big parade of Thessaloniki was stopped like that . Then one by one all the cities and even small villages in Greece started reporting that all over Greece the parades were stopped, the politicians who were attending them were thrown out of the parade and people paraded and celebrated without them.
Here is our flag waving from our balcony and of which we are all so proud.

Here is what happened today given with figures of the shadow puppet theatre.
Karaghiozis the Greek,Prime Minister G. Papandreou,Minister of Education A. Diamantopoulou,Kopritis son of Karaghiozis,Alexander the Great,Minister of Finance E. Venizelos.