Since my last post, I?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2ve done three things: sleep, eat, and talk about going back to sleep or what?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s to eat. The day I got back from Istanbul, I left for the mountains in the Peloponnese, for Greek Easter – which is a huge event here in Greece. About half the Greek population moved to Athens 30 years ago, but their parents all come from villages, and so there is a mass-migration for a weekend every year. My mothers village, which has a permanent population of about 50 (49 as of yesterday), swells to a few hundred during Easter and the August 15 celebrations. It?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s certainly a fun time, especially considering it’s predominantly a young crowd now.<\/p>\n
Since the Easter celebrations, I stayed in the village with my uncle?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s family that is based up there (and in the regional capital, Tripoli). The idea was that I take it easy because I was still trying to get over my jet lag ?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00c4\u00fa let alone the Anzac trip which just made me more tired. Unfortunately, I didn?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2t get to relax as much as I hoped. This was due to my little cousins ?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00c4\u00fa one is ten, the other eight ?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00c4\u00fa who expected me to play games with them all day. And when afternoon siesta time came, or the later night-time sleep, they would snore. Actually one night when I shared the bed with the elder Theodore, he karate-chopped me. It was on the neck as well, which kind of hurt (they are both Tae-Kwon-Doe students). It was also at about 4am, just before the neighbours pack of eight dogs started barking at five in the morning. Sorry, I meant those eight fucking piss-stained shit-coloured imbred dogs started barking, at five in the morning (and every morning thereafter). Don?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2t get me started on the rooster.<\/p>\n
I spent my week doing that, before I returned to my other Uncle?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s family home, in Athens and where I am basing my entire trip from. The day I returned, we went out for one of my (Athenian) cousin?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s birthday (all three girls are aged 20-25). In Greece, the person who is celebrating has to shout drinks for the people that are there. i’m lovin it. Having spent a week doing animal noises to entertain the kids, it was time to have a few drinks and kick-back. I thought I only had a few drinks, but my cousins swear they saw me pouring myself a few extra drinks, and a few more on top of that. Either way, whatever I drank, it was a hangover that lasted well into the next night.<\/p>\n
One week on, I have been sleeping, eating, and talking about going back to sleep or what?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s to eat. I am sleeping 10-12 hours a day, and if it wasn?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2t for food, I would sleep more. So I hope you don?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2t mind, but I am going back to sleep now. Good bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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