After spending hours of hard work on the boat, taking the old stickers off, refreshing the paint of the hull and washing the sails, it was finally ready to be put in the sea again. We were all looking forward on sailing after the extended time it spent in the […]
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This Sunday we decided to discover another part of the island. Since we have not seen much of the north yet we went to Kardamyla which is the biggest village of the northeast in Chios with around 4000 inhabitants. As most of the villages along the cost Kardamyla has an […]
Easter is the most important event in the Greek year. After the 40 day long great Lent the Easter holiday usually comes with several celebrations and ceromonies. It is the time of family barbecues and traditional dances connected with a wenton mood and happiness. All of us were excited to […]
Carnival is a very special time in Greece. It is a three weeklong period that belongs to the Easter festival. So it is a religious event with an old tradition. The whole period is called “Apokries” which means abstention of meat because it ends with the 48 days long fasting […]
Anavatos is a deserted medieval mountain village in the centre of Chios island. It is reachable via a lonely road going up and down the mountains, passing by the monastery Nea Moni which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and crossing forests and extremely dry areas with barely any vegetation […]
Time flies by really quick. So the invitation for the Midterm-Training was a big surprise for all of us. The Midterm-Training is offered to all volunteers who do a project that is longer than 6 months by the National Agency of Greece, which basically means that the half of the […]
Water is the elixir of our life without it we could not exist. Because of its importance for our lives the teachers of the kindergarten took the past two weeks to explain everything about water to the children. Starting with the question “how does water smell?” the children learnt at […]
As a big highlight of the year the 3rd kindergarten of Vrontados prepared a Christmas theatre for Sunday the 15th of December which they performed in the “ΠΕΚΕΒ” club. To have the best performance as possible the teachers started to practice the play already back in November. With much passion […]
On Halloween, the 31st of October, the second primary school of Vrontados decided to do an excursion to the nearby beach of Daskalopetra. The beach is named after the famous poet Homer. Homer used to teach his students on the rock, which is just up the hill above the beach. […]
Every year on the 28th of October the people in Greece and the Greek communities all around the world celebrate a very special historical moment. In 1940, during the Second World War Benito Mussolini presented a ultimatum, to the Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxa, which demanded Greece allow Axis forces to […]
The 11th of November is a very special and important day for the inhabitants of Chios Island. More than hundred years ago the island was occupied by Turkey for many years. The population was oppressed, their rights were restricted. But the population of Chios wanted to be an independent part […]
Every morning when we wake up we see the sun rising over Turkey. The turkish coast is only 30 km away from Chios island. So since Turkey is that close, we took the chance of the long weekend and booked a ferry for Saturday morning on the 26th of October. […]