Today is Good Friday here in Greece. Apart from the religious services, the dressing of the biers this morning and the parade tonight, this is a bank holiday for most businesses. Being a holiday island, the tourist businesses will no doubt be open, but others, not. I’m still open for business and have two projects to work on, but I shall be taking Monday off to catch up on some other work. I was going to leave you with a gallery of photos that you may have seen before, but instead, I thought I would leave you with something to remind us all of how the world once was, rarely now is, but should be.
Below is a shot of one of the village bakeries. Because they close for siesta before some people can collect their bread orders, they leave them hanging on the shop door during closed hours. The bags are named, and they are never stolen. Reminds me of being in the wilds of Devon many years ago now, hiking along country lanes and now and then coming across a box of vegetables with a sign saying, ‘Help yourself,’ and an open box for ‘pay what you can.’ On the same trip, but miles away at Brookland church on Romney Marsh, there was the same thing in the porch. People’s home-grown produce, there for those who want or need to buy locally. I’m sure (I hope) it still goes on, and this is the Symi version.
Happy Easter – back on Tuesday.
