September 3, 2021 130 0 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 14 Part 13 “You’re Going to Xilurgu” Unloading our backpacks off the coach, I saw a driver in a minibus who was about to leave…
August 31, 2021 141 0 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 13 Part 12 Caryes. The Pilgrimage Begins The bus was humming strenuously, lifting us higher and higher. We were on Mount Athos! Perhaps the Lord…
August 27, 2021 129 0 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 12 Part 11 Dream Come True Call it exaltation if you like, but we knelt down and kissed the holy stones of Athos. Until recently,…
August 24, 2021 135 0 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 11 Part 10 Orientation Session While still sitting in the wardroom, I instructed my companions “with competence”. – Everyone will have their own Athos. It…
August 20, 2021 189 0 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 10 Part 9 Another Temptation It was 5 AM, and we hurried to pick up our diamontiria. When my turn came, a girl in uniform…
August 16, 2021 159 0 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 9 Part 8 Sea, Urchins and Retsina We went to the shore. What looked like sand to us turned out to be fine gravel, but…
August 13, 2021 232 0 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 8 Part 7 In Ouranoupoli At 14 o’clock we returned to Thessaloniki airport and met with Georgievich, who had flown in from Moscow. Then we…
August 9, 2021 366 0 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 7 Part 6 Thessaloniki The narrow streets of Thessaloniki with their identical low-slung buildings seemed to lack landmarks. I thought that if I got lost…
August 6, 2021 273 0 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 6 Part 5 On the Way to Mount Athos It was a fasting day, but when the flight attendants started serving breakfast, we preferred an…
August 2, 2021 202 0 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 5 Part 4 Accompanying Temptations Any good deed is usually associated with difficulties and all kinds of temptations. My vigilance was disturbing me. I was…