It has been a busy few days here. Sunday, June 23rd, was Pentecost so Monday was a bank holiday. We have had a lot of tourists from Serbia, North Macedonia and Bulgaria. As most of them are Orthodox like the Greeks, they also took advantage of the long weekend.
I haven’t found much of personal interest to write about. The Euro elections have come and gone with no real surprises. The new president of the Republic of North Macedonia caused a fuss; in her swearing-in ceremony she managed to omit the words “Republic of North…”, which threw the Greeks into a spin. It was predictable. Only an uneducated prick like Alexis Tsipras would have failed to recognise that “North” as well as “Macedonia” were recipes for future trouble. How long will it be before militants start demanding “their” south? There is also some tension with Albania over the continuing imprisonment of Fredi Beleri, an ethnic Greek Albanian politician convicted of buying votes. In a move than can only increase tensions, he was on the ballot papers as a New Democracy MEP candidate and he was elected!
In February I posted a photo of our Japanese acacia. Here it is in April and May.
The leaves were struggling to emerge in April.
In May the leaves were out and the tree looks beautiful against the stormy sky. That’s Odin in the centre.
Finally, in its summer glory with Odin still getting himself in the picture.
Next week we head for our summer place in Halkidiki where my focus will be on two things: the Euros and the UK elections.