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We are home from Greece and would like to thank you for your assistance with our travel arrangements there.
Everything went smoothly and we LOVE your country.
Thanks for your suggestions and help making our vacation truly memorable.
I will definitely recommend you to my friends here in the US.
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Dear All: You did a great job of selecting hotels and making our arrangements for this trip.
The hotels were all in great locations.
Overall we had a wonderful vacation in Greece
– Lloyd & Bobbie Ferguson USA
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Thank YOU!. . .
Dear All: You did a great job of selecting hotels and making our arrangements for this trip.
The hotels were all in great locations.
Overall we had a wonderful vacation in Greece
– Lloyd & Bobbie Ferguson USA
Thank YOU!. . .
Dear All: You did a great job of selecting hotels and making our arrangements for this trip.
The hotels were all in great locations.
Overall we had a wonderful vacation in Greece
– Lloyd & Bobbie Ferguson USA
Selected for quality, location, price.
Hotels for every budget!
Lux to Economy !
Sarakosti (Lent)
The practice of fasting during Sarakosti is known as 'nisteia', and is observed with varying degrees of strictness, the most extreme involving even abstinence from oil, as well as from meat, dairy, and wine. Sexual relations were also included
in the list of prohibited substances and activities.
Many people in modern times fast only during Megali Evdhomadha (literally, Great Week), which is the week before Pascha (Easter Sunday), finding it too stressful to fast during the entire
six weeks. In older times, when printed calendars were unavailable to many villagers, many who observed a long and
strict fast followed a custom for calculating the passing of the long stressful weeks of abstinence.
A figure of a woman, who was designated Kyra Sarakosti (Lady Sarakosti/Lent) was cut out of sheet of paper. She had no mouth (because she never ate), her hands joined together in prayer, and at the bottom of her long skirt seven little feet projected, one
for each of the weeks of fasting. Every Saturday one foot was cut off, the last one on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter
Sunday, this last foot inserted into a dry fig or a walnut, bringing luck to the finder.
