I hope all my friends and readers had great New Year celebrations (and can remember it!). I was a little surprised how quiet the village was and indeed few houses seemed to be celebrating; there was no one to be seen in the street at the stroke of We had our own party (a few ex-pats) and after the evening meal we were joined by some of our Greek village friends who brought with them a home made Vassilopita (which was just as well as the one we had brought in the local supermarket was awful, being no more than a dried type of bread) which got ceremoniously cut according to tradition after we toasted the New Year and sang Auld Lang Syne as we watched from the balcony fireworks exploding over the city of Kalamata and town of Messini.
Being some two hours ahead of the UK it was too early to call relatives there (as one of our friends did a previous year only to be asked if they were @#*!ed as it was only 10pm.), so family greetings had to wait until New Years Day.
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