Mansikoita ja käsitöitä (postausta toisaalta 11.12.2020)

 

Mansikoita ja käsitöitä meidän ihanassa Kreikan satamassa :).

Tänään kurvasi taas vihannes- ja hedelmä Jorgos Hiacellaan satamaan, saatiin vihannes ja hedelmä asiat kuntoon. Ja kun näin että ihan mansikoitakin oli, muistin että mulla on korkkaamaton pullo Port- viiniä viime talvelta Portugalista. Elikkäs tosi hyvä jälkiruoka syntyy näitten liitosta. Rasia mansikoita, alle dl port- viiniä ja sokeria! Antaa mehustua 12-24 tuntia ja nam! Sopii varmasti myös kreikkalaisen jogurtin kera tai vaniljajäätelö olisi kans herkkua!

Last days and visits in Crete!

Goodbye tour in Crete and of course one more time a flat tire. This was fifth time in Crete that I got one!

Heraklion and bead shopping!

A day in Heraklion and doing last bead shoppings! In the end of this posting you can read where to buy your beads in case you make also jewelries and want to do some bead shoppings in Crete.

Time for macrame

Lasts posts have been soooo doggy, but this posting is still nothing to do with this beautiful island and its scenerys. Its about my new passion, macrame that I have been doing, even I am taking care now of two dogs, I have found some time. Ok, no more word dog on this post!

Ive been doing several macrame works and I really enjoy it, making knots can make you nut!

Learning new!

The best thing in travelling is meeting people and learning new things! This time my camper friend, Paula, was teaching me macrame- work and by this she surely gave me a new addiction!

As I do make jewerlies already quite some years, its even more fascinating to learn new techniques! We spent two days in my camper by doing works and talks and drinking coffee, how welcome was that!

So this is what I made as my first work, feeling proud :)

Reindeer horns for the Greek boys

 
I wanted to make something different for the Greek boys (well two of them were already men), something they surely would not find in Greece. What could that be? Of course leather jewels with reindeer horn pendants! Each closure was different, one made of some nut, one from a piece of a bone and one from floated wood, so a tiny difference between them. As you can see, I have plenty of useful things in my little van :P

What to give for a Greek man?

 
The family I have started to know so well is having a taverna. They run their taverna six months a year, so you could think how nice, that could mean that after they have six months holiday? Not quite. They have their own sheeps and goats to look after. They have chickens. They make their own honey. They have their own wine and since you have your own grapes, naturally you make your own raki too. They have their own garden - with herbs, salads and vegetables. In December they start to collect their olives and will get their own oil. After the olives are collected, you need to look after the trees and do the cutting. Few nights ago the father left 3 am with his two sons to collect herbs from the mountain. Not forgetting that they collect their own sea salt and I am sure I don´t even know everything they do. The kids are helping in all this, though now they have summer holiday from school, well, not a holiday as the kids in back home, these kids are working the whole summer with the family. Feels almost that the easiest thing is having the taverna...

Birthdays, baby goats and petanque

It is always so nice to be in Frangokastello, such a nice stop with beautiful beach and of course meeting always the nice Greek family from here! This time my English camper friends were here too, as they also like to come back and back to this spot.

We celebrated Linda´s birthday, I watch the petanque, played with team UK, Greek and France and had a chance to feed a baby goat! Many nice moments and conversations with Linda, the woman who can talk non-stop, in a good way :). Most of days she was coming to my camper for a few hours chat, she has so many stories to tell, I miss her already since they left on Friday.

Monday should come better weather with plenty of sun, so we will stick around still a while in Frangokastello.

Kastri - beads, port, sea and walking

We have passed by this village before, but this was the first time we stopped there and had a wonderful week! It is located in the South, between Mires and Ierapetra, 12 km south from Ano Viannos. Kastri is a tiny fishing village with some tavernas, port, beaches, no hotels but there are rooms to rent. Supermarket is also open all year around and its runned by a friendly man, Manolis. Actually everyone I met were so friendly and in one week time, I learned to know many people and when I made the walks with the doggy it felt that I would actually live in the village.

I made a nice friendship with Jorgos, the bead artist. He is handicapped and he is working from his wheelchair, living and working in his studio on the beach road - easy to find him. I´ve been doing myself also glass beads and hoping to make them next time together with Jorgos, would be fun. I had such a good laugh with him and he also wanted to give me a ride, how cool is that!

Previosly happened 5 - Odottamatta kääntäjäksi

Talvella 2011 kun olin opiskelemassa hopeasepän töitä Amsterdamissa, jouduin yllättäen kääntäjän hommiin ja en mihin tahansa sanastoon (!). Opettajani ja hänen miehensä remontoivat taloaan Amsterdamissa, samoissa tiloissa on myös tämä koulu ja olinkin siten helposti käytettävissä tuntien jälkeen...

Christmas and New Year in Crete, Matala

New Year at Matala Beach

Christmas we were having such a great time at the restaurant Petra & Votsalo, Matala. Eating, drinking and dancing, music was though played so loud that you could not have conversations, so you needed just to dance instead talking ;). Earlier at the day while I was speaking with my friend on the phone, I suddenly heard someone saying merry xmas in Finnish for me next to my van, I stopped my call and was running after this couple, I got to see this miracle, other FINNS were in Matala too! Kaarina and Pekka left three weeks earlier from Finland and they were travelling around with their car and had rented an appartment from Matala for few days. I told them that there was a party 24.12 at Petra and Votsalo restaurant and they came along too to spent xmas, was nice!