Today our sailing boat “Olympia” returned into the Aegean sea for the first time in 2014! It was dropped into the water at the ship yard, from where we drove carefully around the coast cliffs to the Marina port at Chios City. it took us around two hours to drive […]
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The temperature is rising and the clouds said goodbye until October. The only sport that won’t cause overheating now is sailing in the beautiful Aegean sea! But before we can do that, we need to finish the last details on our sailing boat “Olympia”. Therefore we painted the keel with […]
What is always necessary when something was not used for several months? Exactly, it has to be cleaned! This rule also applies to our sailing boat “Olympia”, which is still patiently waiting to be back in the sea. That’s why we armed ourselves with soap, a sponge, a bucket and […]
The summer is about to come and what is better than preparing ourselves and our sailing boat Olympia? We put on our solar cream, sunglasses and old clothes for starting to fix the boat for the sailing season. First we removed the rust of the screw/propeller with sandpaper, that took […]
Last week we used for the first time our great boat Olympia. It was a very sunny and beautiful day and we left all together to the shipyard to see how the boat was carried into the water. Firstly a boat carriage was driven under the boat and later the […]
After our second successful presentation of Poland in the primary school, were we told and showed the children different things about the culture and history, we went together with the family of our tutor, as well as with our mentor and our technical responsibles into a traditional and very nice […]
Every year on the 25th of March whole Greece is celebrating. In every school children create a parade and theatre plays or other presentations to the topic 25th of March. In the cities there are bigger parades and the Greek flag is present everywhere. But what is this exciting day about? In […]
No, it is not necessarily New Years Eve when you hear rockets and fireworks in Vrontados. It is an old tradition there to fire thousands of rockets at two churches in the night before Easter Sunday. This is called rocket war because both churches have a team and they pretend […]
Oxi Day is celebrated in Greece and Cyprus to commemorate the Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas’ rejection of the ultimatum given by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on October 28, 1940. The name of this holiday is taken from the word the minister used when he objected to the Italian leader. The […]
On the 28th of October each year the “Oxi Day” is celebrated throughout Greece. On this special day there is held a parade in the central square of Chios City to celebrate the historical day in 1940, when the Greek Prime Minister Metaxas rejected the the ultimatum made by the […]
Mastic – one of the most important and typical plants of Chios Island. We had the chance to see and take part in some of the steps to produce Mastic, the “white gold” which many tourists and inhabitants buy and love so much. But it is a really long procedure […]