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Tag Archives: winter
2227 – snow on Athos 12-01-2022
One of the monks on Athos that I follow on Facebook is Prodromos Grigoriatis. He lives in Karyes and last year he was the first who shared the news with us about the new large building that is constucted in … Continue reading
Posted in Karyes, nature, news
Tagged bell tower, main street, new building, Protaton, restaurants, snow, winter
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2141 – From Dionysiou to Paulou in summer and winter
In the summer of 2011 we walked from Dionysiou to Paulou. The other way around as my brother Wim has described in the previous post (2140). In the winter of 2015 my friend Bas and I, together with our sons, … Continue reading
Posted in 05 Dionysiou, 14 Paulou, trip 2011: Herman's group, trip 2015
Tagged bread, monopati, olives, snow, steep, tower, winter
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2096 – The harbour of Vatopediou
I will show a few impressions of the harbour (arsanas) of Vatopediou. The 19th century warehouse from the perspective of the pier. The monastery with its red walls towers above the warehouse. A closer look at the boathouse. The loose … Continue reading
Posted in 02 Vatopedi, arsanas
Tagged boathouse, cats, Derek Hill, police, pre-Christian, Stephen the Great and Holy, winter
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1897 – Vatopedi website: The Ascetic Experience
These high quality pictures can be found on the Vatopedi – The Ascetic Experience. A Vatopedi monk/webmaster invited me by email to publish their pictures on our weblog, and here is the first result: a monk is collecting a bucket … Continue reading
1888 – body of missing Ukrainian monk found near Filotheou
In post 1882 I reported about the winter conditions on Athos and I showed you beautiful pictures of Athos in the snow. On January 30th on the internet the sad news appeared that the snowstorms on Athos took the life of … Continue reading
1882 – winter on Athos!
It keeps on snowing on the Holy Mountain: many beautiful and rare photo’s appear on the internet, such as these from Karyes and the Protaton and the Holy Epistatia building:and the main road and hotel in Karyes, with large icicles! Here … Continue reading
1778 – snow on Athos
We get different reports from yesterday, the 18th of January, and today, that Athos was covered by a white blanket of snow (Chilandariou). Father Eugenios (Nea Skiti) sent me this picture, taken from Skiti Xenofontos:The Lavra weather station shot this … Continue reading
1720 – White Athos
Summer is here but I have some last winter pictures which I made on our trip to Athos in december/january 2014/15The totally unexpected short snowballfight we had in the courtyard of Gregoriou. Leaving Gregoriou walking to Dionysiou Dionysiou in sight. … Continue reading
1663 – The peaceful beginning of the last day of the year
The snow had come as predicted. It was quite a pack. Icicles were formed during the night. It was not very cold. Around freezing probably. The visibility was quite limited. The mountainous backdrop was invisible. It was still snowing lightly … Continue reading
1661 – A night at Grigoriou
After a nutritious dinner in the monastery in the company of the monks and half a dozen workmen, we could unwind and prepare ourselves for the next day. I decided to try and make some pictures in the stormy night. … Continue reading