What is your favorite holidays in Greece?
Question by Chevalier de La Barre: What is your favorite holidays in Greece?
My top 5 reads like
1)Easter big time!I think we probably have the most celebrated Easter in the world.
2)Christmas and New Years Eve
3)15 of August,Dekapedaugoustos.
4)Tsiknopempti,damn i love this celebration! It’s our Thanksgiving
5) Kathara Deutera/tie with my personal name day!
Best answer:
Answer by S. P. M.
December seems to be one continual yiorti, my family has no less than three birthdays, seven
namedays and an anniversary, St Spiridon on 12th and loukoumades on the eve, plus
Christmas Day, 26th, and the celebrations on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. To top it all off my Grandchildren produce a home Pantomime, usually on Christmas Eve or 23rd. It goes without
saying that all these days include copious amounts of food and drink, and we all seem to have
open houses for most of the month. Strength is needed …
Easter Week in Corfu begins with the Litany Procession on Palm Sunday, and continues right
through until Easter Monday, with all its traditional religious processions, breaking of kanates, etc.
an open service in Corfu town square on Easter Eve with fireworks at midnight, mayeiritsa Kerkyraiko, and then lamb on the spit, splhnantero, kokoretsi, eggs, tsoureki, galaktompoureko, cheesecake, etc.,wine, tsikoudia, tsipouro ouzo, on Sunday and Monday too. There are all sorts of other traditions, each village has something different to offer, far too many to mention here. Easter in Corfu is an unforgettable time.
I very much enjoy Kathara Deutera, another extended family affair, usually at the home of my
second daughter in the north of the island. Shellfish, fresh from the sea, four different types
of taramosalata, xtapodi cooked in the oven in red wine, boiled with lemon or vinegar, roasted on the
barbecue and xtapodi stifado, squid in spicy sauce, kalamaria, endless varieties of salad, etcetera, home-made wine and tsipouro, home-made halva … nhsteuoume opos blepeis …
15th August is usually a family beach day as the whole family is on Corfu for August. Needless
to say each family brings enough food to feed the whole family!
Tsiknopempth is usually a good evening out at a taverna,
happily only one meal!
We also celebrate all the remaining family namedays and birthdays throughout the year, and of course all the
national and local holidays.
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