Oranges, we eat them a lot but we never seen them growing on trees in Western Europe. The association with oranges is for us summer, not winter or snow. Nevertheless there were plenty of oranges, mandarin and lemons in Nea Skiti on the first day of 2015. The snow was already melting as we were entering this settlement of monks after a long walk coming from Dionysiou.
                        Apparently there was such an abundance of citrus that the monks did not pick them all up anymore. Or maybe it was to cold for them to go outside. We picked the fruit from the trees and ate them. They were cold and sweet but with many seeds.
Nea Skite is a kind of lovely village with a lot of houses with fruit and vegetables gardens.
             
In every monastery we saw gardens with the citrus fruits. This is in Gregoriou after the snowfall.
Before we arrived at Nea Skiti we visited Paulou monastery where we asked for something to eat. The friendly archondariki brought us olives, bread, tarama, halva, apples and…. two oranges.

Herman Voogd