athens carnival

Here in Greece the national religion is greek orthodox. They do something similar to mardi gras & lent before easter, but it’s called carnival & fast.

Carnival is two weekends when the streets come alive with parades, street performances, concerts, and events. Adults & children wear costumes and masks, and beat each other with plastic bats in public (much like a pillow fight) and throw streamers and generally party all day & night.. but on Monday, a national holiday, and first day of fasting… “Clean Monday” everyone goes to the hills and parks to fly kites.

Since I’m preggy, we did not go out getting involved in the rituals as deeply as we would have enjoyed in the past, but we did go out to see some afternoon music & performances, and we did go to strefi hill to watch the kites on Monday. The weather was gorgeous and philippe had a 3-day weekend… what could be nicer?