Monday, 1 July 2013

Happy Summer!

I hope you will have a great summer!
Ours is bound to be really hot due to the continuous financial and political crisis, the unemployment and the many problems people are facing in Greece!
Still the blue sea, the open skies, the sun and nature are ours to seek, feel and dream with! For better days!
I won't be blogging much during summer!
I will hopefully swim a lot to get my strength and rhythm back...
... and I will definitely read books!

Here are the 20 books I managed to save all through winter from bazaars, exchanges and second hand bookstores.
I will take lots of pictures to fill lots of blogposts in Autumn!
I hope also to do some cross stitch as Barca didn't allow it in winter. I will add some more felted stones to my collection (whether they will be sold or not!)
Hopefully we will play a lot with Barca!(Here at her first swim!)
And meet friends and relatives!(If people are fortunate enough to have money to spend on travelling!)
Of course I will be spending hours sea glassing!And here I leave you with a picture of what I will probably be looking for all summer!I miss the U!Or something matching!
Have a great summer!

When roads meet

Happy month of July every one!
As I won't be blogging for some time due to the holidays I wanted to wish you a great summer with this blogpost!
The weekend before last I had the chance to meet with some of my old students.Our roads met again. And while you are reading why don't you listen to this great song?


Those children were my pupils when they were 6th graders and I was only on my second year of the State School sector.
Their school Lianovergi was quite far away from home and I had to take the train or the bus to go there.
That's my class there infront of the school back in 1996.
The little naughty guy in front was the one who found me on facebook and arranged the meeting!
And here we are after 17 years.
Me and hubby (in pink T-shirt) and their class teacher next to me and some of the students. Not all of them could come but hopefully we will meet again soon and maybe more will be able to attend next time.
 Just us girls!
English teacher and pupils!
It was a great meeting! I am looking forward to meeting them again!

Friday, 28 June 2013

For the love of horses!

I always loved horses! But never had a chance to go horseriding or even just play with them!
I am even a horse in the Chinese zodiac!
I have a cousin who loves horses too and his daughter was a champion in horse riding! Now he is a champion too in horse ridden carriage championships.
He was here in the city taking part in the races here and we had the chance to meet him and his horse Alexander.
The races took place at a Horseriding Club near Thessaloniki.
The horses were beautiful in their stables.


We watched the races.



We saw how horses are tended.
My cousin explained lots to us and my niece Vicky!
And we also attended the closing ceremony with the prizes!



My cousin Stavros and his horse Alexander. Stavros saved this horse and I think they are having great fun together! And so did we!
(Some of the photos were taken by hubby)

Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Fortissimo

The electric string band Fortissimo appeared in front of ERT3(Greek Television 3).They were excellent!



Saturday, 22 June 2013

One rainy Sunday in May...

...we went for a walk with Barca of course...
 ...to the open antique market....
 ....spotting great embroideries....
 ...porcelain....

 ....shells and wooden eggs....
 ...glassware.....
 ....frames and paintings.....

 ....crystals.....
 ....metal objects.....
Greek souvenirs....
The old fisherman ........
 ...gorgeous porcelain figurines....

 ...a fantastic majolica set....
 ....and then we went to the open flower market as it was Mother's Day.....
 ....spotting great flowers....

 ...and plants with strange names like saucepan(!)or stuffed(!) meaning that they are peppers for various uses....
 ...and mojito.....
 ....buying a beautiful flower in a pot for our mum....

....smelling blooming magnolias....
 ...and trying to take close up pictures of insects that don't sit still....
 ...or of Barca who doesn't sit still either....
 My son brought me roses from his dad's garden....

 ...don't they look  beautiful next to the vintage blue frosted ashtray I bought from the antique market?That was my only purchase!
But it was a good day...........