Day 6 Galatas

Day 6

Galatas

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The Assumption of Mary (when god's mom got into heaven) is celebrated by Catholics on Aug 15 all over the world but it's celebrated differently everywhere. Here there's candles in bread, sermons in microphones to big speakers on closed streets and a parade led by a guy in a black-hooded cloak.

The view from our front door.

I wasn't very good

We had to endure a week in this place

That's our hotel, the Poros View, on the hill across the water.

It was named for the hill I was standing on.

Best little beach ever.

And possibly the worst. It was called Koloni and was a half hour cab ride outside of town. It was billed by UK's Guardian as one of the best beaches in Greece. 50 meters of gravel with no services.

Somebody paid somebody.

But we had a pool at the hotel so we didn't suffer tooo much.