more Kalamata etc and Happy Stuff fore Everyone!!

so xmas is upon us, and considering the Greeks only exchange gifts on the 1st January, and just eat several various foods regionally on the 25th (such as turkey soup locally, and pork cooked in oven with shallots, which is beautiful, even made its way to our last pikilia in Logga) there are loads of street and private decorations and lights with hundreds of santas climbing on houses. We had a friday market visit to Petalidi, a big walk turning off the road to the hill, finding a nice little probably ancient well in a tiny place called Laina, ending up in Logga as per usual, and a Kalamata trip yesterday, Rosemarie again very kindly gave us a lift, first taking us to her local pharmacy for our flu shots, for 6 euros each. Interestingly, we were told not to drink alcohol, or eat chocolate, fish, eggs for a full day!. So we managed to keep busy and happy even without guests for a few days now. Tomorrow we'll get turkey in some shape from the local butcher as well as beautiful looking undressed prawns, and Rosemarie is bringing us 2 lobsters (!!) from Liddle, and she gifted us 1.5l of their own freshly cold-pressed olive oil. And in Kalamata I got cranberry sauce from a very good AB supermarket, as well as weird cook-in-the bad chestnuts and a bottle of Baileys, to surprise Szonya, who never reads the blog, don't worry. Happy xmas everyone everywhere, try not to worry about the badsadmad world for a few days!!