Travel all the way
The 2 ‘livecretealive exclusive day trips’ I want to provide are nearly ready, I only have to collect some of the attributes needed. Yes attributes, because these are no sit, visit, listen and look day trips, it are do, feel, experience and learn day trips with a lot of fun and NO STRESS AT ALL.
June 2019, I have never seen such a bad tourist june in the 27 years that I live and work here.
I worked only 1 day the last week but you know, it doesn’t really bother me. Last year I would have been in a very bad and anxious mood. But since I started doing yoga and meditation (I started last winter a yoga teacher course) I have a totally different look on life now.
So yesterday evening when I heard that I do not work again I decided to go to the beach, do a nice morning meditation sitting on the sand and go for a swim.
It’s like I’m on holidays and it really feels like holidays too. It’s like I’m having my first holidays in a real long time!
HAVE TRUST IN YOURSELF AND IN LIFE, AND ENJOY!!
Auf dem heutigen Ausflug haben wir Tomatenbällchen und Zucchinibällchen gemacht.
Die sind sehr lecker und leicht zu zubereiten.
Für beide braucht man eigentlich die gleichen zutaten. Nur ist die Tomate die Hauptzutat in der einen und die Zucchini in der anderen.
Zutaten. :
4 Tomaten/Zucchini
Die weitere zutaten sind :
2 Zwiebeln, 1 Ei, Minze, Oregano, Salz, Pfeffer, 1 Tasse Mehl und 1 Tasse Paniermehl.
Bereitung :
Die Hauptzutat und die Zwiebel müssen gerieben werden und alle anderen Zutaten werden zu dieser Mischung gegeben.
Dann machen sie Kugeln mit der Mischung, rollen sie in zusätzliches Mehl und die Kugeln werden frittiert.
Wer möchte, kann der mischung auch geriebenen käse hinzufügen.
So einfach kann die griechische Küche sein. Guten Apetit!!
Heute war wieder ein schöner tag in den bergen, und wie die Kretischer Käsekuchen so gut geschmeckt haben, schreibe ich das Rezept hier unten.
Zutaten für den Teig :
1 Glas frischer Orangensaft
1 Weinglas Olivenöl
1 Rakiglas raki
1 Kilo Mehl und
eine Prise Salz.
Zutaten für die Füllung
1 Kilo mizithra Käse
2 Eier
2 Esslöffel Zucker
ein paar Blätter Minze und
eine Prise Salz.
Bereitung :
Den Teig zubereiten, auf eine Dicke von ca. 2 mm ausrollen und mit einem Glas Kreise in drücken.
Legen Sie die Käsemischung mit einem Kaffeelöffel auf den Teig und falten Sie den Teig fest.
Drücken Sie mit einer Gabel auf die Teigkanten und jetzt können sie in Olivenöl gebacken werden.
servieren Sie mit Honig und guten appetit!!
Megali Tetarti or Good Wednesday is also a very important day in the Greek Orthodox religion, as it is then that the priests during the evening service bless the oil. Oil that is used to bless people and protect them against sickness of body and mind. To bless the oil the priest will read 7 gospels and announce 7 wishes. After he blessed the oil he will put with the oil a cross on the believers forehead, cheek and hands.
In several places in Greece also eggs, flower and salt is taken, covered in a basket, to church where it will be blessed by the priest by crossing it with the wooden holy Cross. The eggs will then be colored on Good Thursday and the flower and salt will be used to make the dough for the ‘prozimi’ or yeast that will be used to make the Easter bread, as also in the bread that will be made in the following year.
It’s Catholic Easter today and Palm Sunday for the Orthodox church. It’s cold in Crete (14° C) for the time of the year, but I decide anyhow to go for a walk to the monastery of Agios Panteleimonas, a distance of a bit more than 3km from where I live in Fodele. The path goes up and after a while I start having stunning views, over the village, the orange groves, the mountains, the olive trees, I see the flowers of the Cistrus Creticus everywhere, so I really enjoy my walk up.
After half an hour I reach the Monastery and my good mood is swept away when I see this
There is an entrance fee to pay! I am so disapointed….., I don’t understand, this is a small monastery, with a great history , yes, that you can read inside, but there is no museum or anything else that you should pay for. This is a religieus place, a place for prayer. I visited the Notre Dame in Paris last winter and there was no entrance fee to pay.
I went inside, sat down for a while to listen to the psalms, I took some crosses specially made for Palm Sunday and I left.
Today 30 January 2019 we celebrate and honor in the Greek Orthodox Church the Three Hierarchs.
The celebration of the Three Hierarchs started in the 11th century when Constantine III Monomachus reorganized the Law School of Constantinople. At that time there were three Saints who were seen as the Saints of education namely Gregoreios the Theologian, Ioanis Chrysostom and Vasileios the Great. During the reorganization the reorganizers could not decide which one of the Saints to place on top and this resulted in a division of the Christians so the ones were called the Gregorites, the others the Ionanites and others the Vasilites.
Until John Mavropos, who was then the Metropolitan of Euchaite, had a vision in which he saw the three Saints. They told him that they are equal to eachother and that they can’t be seperated, that between them there is neither the first nor the second, but if you see one, the two others are next to him. So John Mavropos gave orders to stop the quarrels and stop dividing them for they cannot be seperated and so these three Saints became the Three Hierarchs, the three Saints of education and on the day of their celebration all schools are closed.
From the 11th century on you can also see them together on icons and they are honored every year on the 30th of January.
2018 is gone and we are the start of 2019. A lot of Cretans have celebrated the change of the year with a game of poker or with playing the dies, for money so that they will have a wealthy start of the New Year! (not for the loosers of course but who knows who is going to lose or win at the beginning of the game…)
Before they start playing the family gathers together around the table for a dinner of greek specialities and of course also the melomakarona and the kourabiedes, these two “cookies” are made especialy for these days and everybody loves them, in nearly every houses these cookies are baked and they give the house that special Christmas and end of the year smell, as all Cretans say, you can’t celebrate the end of the year without this smell.
After dinner Agios Vasilis or Santa Claus comes around with gifts for the children, as the first of the year is the name day of Agios Vasileos the great or Saint Vasilis (Basil)
You see that a lot goes on on New Years eve in Crete, it is a party in which the whole family participates, young and old!
Covid19 is nearly gone and also here in Crete life is nearly bavk to normal , so for those who want to escape for a while and enjoy the sun, sea, mountains and our private pool Fodele Relax is still open.
I’m totally prepared to welcome you again in our beautiful villa.
Fodele is a typical Cretan village and my house is built outside of the village with great view over it. The house is also surrounded by orange trees which give me every spring a great view and a lovely blossom smell every time I open my balcony door.
What is amazing here during summer time is that twice a day swallows come to the pool to drink water or to bath here. Even while you are swimming in the pool, they come along to have their bath.
A holiday to relax to the full and swimm with the swallows is possible you just have to contact me on 0030/6951522456 or 0032/493611949.
Below are some more pictures of the holiday villa where you can stay.
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