Come along in a well spent evening at Anmoudi bay #santorini #greece #tour
Plans for the weekend!
(I wish 😜)
What about yours?
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I don’t just give tours, I create experiences! And love spoiling you 🧿 🙏🏼thanks so much for trusting me as your SANTORINI expert
🇬🇷Have a wonderful weekend ahead 🧜🏼♀️
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August 1st
🍉August, one name that bring to mind so many feelings: summer holidays, watermelon (ALWAYS with feta cheese), the nirvana levels that you reach after the afternoon siesta to name just a few.
🗿Above all, August is the month of Virgin Mary, as on the 15th the Dormition of the mother of Jesus Christ is commemorated. That important the 15th of august is that is called as well the “Easter of Summer”
🤰Among the numerous churches dedicated to Virgin Mary - Panayia in Greek- one of my absolute favorite is Theotokaki. Theotokos is one of the various titles of Virgin Mary translated as the one “who gave birth to God”
🏰This small church that stands in the North east part of the medieval castle of Pyrgos owes its unique architecture to its long history that dates back to the 10th century. If you are lucky enough to find the church open please don’t miss the fortune to get inside! You will get mesmerized and touched by the atmosphere!
🖌This morning and as I was having a tour in Pyrgos I noticed that the celebration flags were already set but I couldn’t imagine what I saw as soon as I stepped out the narrow tunnel. Mr Antonis, was happily painting the church despite the 30 oC degrees. And just like that all the fancy hotels,word awarded restaurants, all the champagne disappeared and it felt like being in 1950s. When people were white washing using lime.
✨I couldn’t help but ask him: “Are you whitewashing for the celebration?” He looked at me, smiled, and generously shared a big truth of life: We (although it was just him) are doing our best to make the church beautiful, but that’s easy• The difficult thing is to keep our soul pure and beautiful! Humans are not just flesh and bones, it’s all about the spirit. That’s where the beauty lies. In the soul.
📿And then I had to leave. Sadly. But I think that a message was delivered and well received. And just like that “we” got the new month mantra, “it’s all a
💦Weekend vibes
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“Am I dreaming?!”
🏰That’s what my lovely guests and I exclaimed this morning while touring the village of Pyrgos.
👑Mesmerized by the history and the legends of the medieval fortress we got to witness this fairytale - like scenery while entering the ruins of the castle.
🌈Could we have asked for a more dreamy way to begin our day with?
🪬Life never seizes to surprise us! So blessed to be sharing all this magic with you
#exploresantoriniwithme #feellikealocalwitheugenia #santorini #tour #alwaysattherightplace #experience #dreamy #tour #visitgreece #greekislands #historylover #lifelover #wecreatememories #happytour
📍Somewhere magical
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25th of March: National holiday and double celebration
🕊In 1821, on the 25th of March, the greek revolution against the Ottoman Empire begun. After being for 400 years under the Ottoman Empire, a bunch of Greek heroes inspired by the glorious Ancient Greek past and the fundamental virtues of liberty, freedom and self guidance declared their independence and started a war against the ottomans.
🇬🇷A few years afterwards, with the protocol of London the modern, independent greek state would get born.
So what we celebrate today is the revolution and the heroic struggle of the Greeks against the ottomans.
🗡Of course the revolution didn’t start at once and all over the country simultaneously. The first place to enter the war having as their motto «Ελεθερία ή θάνατος» - “Freedom or death” was Mani, a historical peninsula at the southern part of Peloponesse. That happened on the 17th of March. Then gradually but fast the resolve against tyranny and oppression spread all over Greece.
👼Today is a double holiday! On the 25th of March the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the Annunciation of Virgin Mary. The day when the archangel Gabriel announced that our Lord and savor, Jesus Christ would become incarnate and enter into this world through the womb of Mary.
“Is finer to live one hour as a free man than forty years as a slave and prisoner”
Χρόνια πολλά! Chronia Polla! With the largest Greek flag waving above the caldera 🙏🏼
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“Love and beauty will save the world”
Have a wonderful week end 💕
📍love locks, Fira, SANTORINI, Greece
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“In paradise I have spotted an island identical to you. And a house by the sea”
“To monogramma” Odysseus Elytis, Nobel prize awarded greek poet
Which is your “paradise” ?
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🪁Clean Monday- the beginning of Great Lent
🧼Today is a big celebration here in Greece: it’s Clean Monday, a feast that marks the end of Carnival season and the beginning of Great Lent.
🐣The next six weeks will be a physical and spiritual preparation for the most important holiday: Easter.
🍖The most devoted, or just those who want to detox a little bit, will practice the fast and abstain from meat, dairy products and fish.
🙏🏼Great Lent is a journey. A journey of self discipline and liberation from our enslavement to sin. That’s why the day before, the threshold of Lent, is “Sunday of forgivenesses”
🧳In the past big families meals were thrown and all the family members would get gathered, apologize and ask for mutual forgiveness so as to enter to the journey of the great Lent with less negative feelings and “heavy baggage”
🧹To me is a chance to “clean” yourself and “rebirth” somehow. Stay for a while less noisy and loud and get prepared physically and spiritually for the new miracle! Like the ancient “Katharsis” ~purification
🪁That’s what the kite flying that we practice today symbolizes after all, the freeing of the body from the sin. Our hearts and souls which will get lighter, brighter and closer to whatever each of us call “God”
Καλή Σαρακοστή! Happy Lent!
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