Nice & Warm in the Laconia area, the start of 2nd part of my winter hibernation
Mike's home grown veggies
My first bag of olives
At another field
Nets placed under the olive tree
I tried them raw... its very bitter
Kalamata olive tree
Kalamata olive leaves are bigger
Leaves of another type of olive
Ready to be taken to the factory at the end of the day
Picnic basket for lunch... with tsipouro, wine and beer to quench your thirst daily
Roberto helping me to load Thorn in the boot as I wanted to ride`back from work
This is Stella
Stella giving me the puppy eyes... whats up girl
Lucy... she gets whatever she wants and everyone loves this princess
Lucy's paw... I like to play with it
Spiro working at the machine
The fields at covered with clovers
The loose olives that falls from the trees and out of the machine... have to pick the twigs out
Hanni at the machine, running olive branches through the machine
The loose olives on the nets
Robertoo (my host) cutting the branches
Packing up to move to another field
Lunch with Hanni, Roberto, Spiro and Sascha.. Yamas
I looked like a bandit... it was the coldest day I had with some snow
Burning branches... for some warmth too
Our hideout
Up on the ceiling... hello anybody home?
Walnut tree
Found a mascot hanging in the field
Men fixing technical problem
'Tree Cancer'... if you cut this branches on a wet day and use the same saw to cut another tree, it will pass the 'diesease' to the new tree
Not nice to keep getting poke by them when they get mixed between the olives I try to clean
New life
Branches need to be burned after the harvest
Sascha getting off the remaining olives left on the trees with the 'rotating' stick
New toy... no need to pick the twigs by hand now
Moving the nets around
Sascha, Spiro, Hanni, Anthony, Adrian, Roberto
Hanni & Spiro knew I like Halva and didn't forget to get me one on our last lunch together
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Olive factory
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Daily view
Sunset view from the house
View further up the mountain
Fig tree
Almond trees
Home grown veggies
My favourite greens in Greece, wild winter vegetable (Horta).
I can eat them everyday. Take some time to pick and clean them though. Bascially you boil them, drain the water, add olive oil, lemon and garlic.
Malvin
Bernie
Tarzan with his girlfriend... Simple love
Her name is 'No brain'
Trying to learn Greek haha
Sascha found this 4.5 leaf clover... Lucky? I will keep it safe till the end of my journey
Prepping edible olives for soaking... crush and soak them for weeks before we can eat them
Figs
Crushing almonds for the chocolate cake that Barbara gonna bake for us...
Barbara homemade bread
Helping Barbara to make cheese Ravioli for dinner
Anthony (French baker) who was also here for the harvest bake us croissants.
Coincidentally we had roast chicken on Chinese New Year eve... Barbara & Roberto's visiting friend, Michael who was a chef cook us these spread. I'll just take this as a celebration for me.
Chicken from their farm.
''Replenishing stock''... for eggs and food
Sascha & my teamwork... prepping dinner as Barbara & Roberto had other plans on one of the night
Strange looking thing... a kind of swede?
Carrots from the garden
Tasty wild asparagus... one of my favourite. Roberto, Barbara & especially Sascha have been picking them and I had lots on the last two days before I depart. Eating them cooked or raw makes me happy.
Barbara taking me horse riding
Weekly get together singing with Barbara & Roberto's friends
Tuning instrument
The game Sascha and I played to past time. The lighter was merely leaning on an olive and you can stack anything on top with things found on the table
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Bike ride home after work
Stack rock... nature creation?
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Monemvasia
Day trip on the bike
Old olive tree
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Sascha penning down his inspirations in my note book.
Thanks for making the last ride to send me off, coming for the previous few rides, being the occassional 'GPS' etc etc!
Also huge thanks to Barbara and Roberto for this opportunity and letting me stayed longer than agreed. I had a fantastic time (feasting, learning and experiencing new things) that I broke down in tears on my departure (embarrassed)... Not shed a tear on my riding days but for this...
Greetings to everyone back there and hope to see all again! Was lucky to have arrived here, wonderful people, beautiful landscape, perfect weather that I was brown from the sun... The day I left it was 24deg and I'm going back to the north which is below 10deg.
13 Jan 15: 8.5km [Sunny]
26 Feb 15: 7.5km [Sunny]
01 Mar 15: 78.92km [Sunny]
04 Mar 15: 8.55km [Sunny]
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