Out & About in Symi
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Clean Monday
Clean Monday (Greek: Καθαρή Δευτέρα), also known as Pure Monday, Ash Monday, Monday of Lent or Green Monday, is the first day of the Eastern Orthodox Christian and Eastern Catholic Great Lent. It is a movable feast that occurs at the beginning of the 7th week before Orthodox Easter Sunday. Clean Monday is a public holiday in Greece and Cyprus, where it is celebrated with outdoor excursions, the consumption of shellfish and other fasting food, a special kind of azyme bread, baked only on that day, named "lagana" (Greek: λαγάνα) and the widespread custom of flying kites. Photos by SymiArt.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
Smokey Thursday Photos
On Tsiknopempti (compound word originating from the words tsikna - the smell of roast food and Pempti -Thursday), roasting meat is a nation-wide custom, as the following day marks the beginning of Lent, until Easter.
Photos by Ged Horton
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