2034 – Athos: a history lesson
An interesting short history lesson about the past of Athos, published 13/12/2018 Wim 23/12
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2035 – The number of Russians visiting Mount Athos has fallen
MOSCOW, December 3. /TASS/. The number of Russians visiting Mount Athos, where an Orthodox monastic community functions under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, has fallen as a...
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2036 – Happy New Year: a film of Karyes on the 4th of January 2019 – snow!
https://youtu.be/lnHIXEOXPDQ (thanks Giannis) Here you can see images of today’s wheather on the Lavra webcam 2: go to http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/theologosmonachos/6/show.html and to this...
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2037 – more pictures from 1923 made by Whittemore and Pratt
In post 1502 we published some old Athos pictures from 1923, following the Russian revolution a few years earlier. Soon after all funding of Russian monasteries stopped and the monasteries were...
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2038 – a short visit to Konstamonitou – 1
On the 2018 pilgrimage to Athos our itinerary started at arsanas Konstamonitou. On the boat to Dafni we met mr. Hadrian from Holland, who has been following our weblog for a quit a while, but this was...
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2039 – a short visit to Konstamonitou – 2
Let’s continue our visit to Konstamonitou on September 18th 2018 (see 2038 for post 1). After entering the monastery through the main entrance (Δ), we turned right, to go to the archondariki –...
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2040 – the hike from Konstamonitou to Docheiariou
I am probably one of the worst pathfinders you can find. Our plan was to hike to Docheiariou and try to walk over as many monopati’s as possible. With the new map of Peter Holworth in our rucksack we...
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2041 – the Cas Oorthuys photo collection from 1957 online
More than 10 years I published two posts in nr 646 and 649 about two articles from 1957 in the Dutch magazine Katholieke Illustratie, written by the Dutch writer A. den Doolaard, who was accompanied...
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2042 – Mount Athos by Edward Lear: new site
Lavra, courtesy of Reeman Dansie Stephen Duckworth has completed a website on the 1856 travels of Edward Lear with all the beautiful drawings of the monasteries. Simonas Petras, courtesy of Sotheby’s...
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2043 – The Holy Mountain today
Seen from 13000 meter, on a flight from Tel Aviv to Amsterdam: The top surrounded by clouds Cape Arapis, Amouliani and Ierissos, with a snow covered Mount Olympos in the background Wim, 4/3
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2044 – a visit to the Mar Saba monastery near Bethlehem
This weblog is about Athos. But every now and then I have to report something not directly related to the Holy Mountain, because of its importance or beauty. Today I will show some photos of the Greek...
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2045 – more about the German flak position on Athos in WW II
In post 2018 I showed you the pictures I bought on the internet, made by German ‘Wehrmacht’ soldiers during the Second World War. Some of the pictures were taken on the hills above skiti Timiou...
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2046 – Early spring in Mount Athos
butterfly at Dafni When visiting the peninsula in April, as we did this year (2019), flowers and fresh green of blossoming plants are all around you. Slopes are turning purple due to this plant....
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2047 – Mysterious mist in Karyes
The early boat, the Agia Anna, took us to Dafni on the 8th of April 2019. The clouds hung low over the peninsula. The Holy Mountain was covered by grey cumuli. In Dafni we found a small taxi bus that...
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2048 – the news today 5/5: access to Athos (almost) impossible because of...
Two pilgrims from Holland just sent me this picture of desperate pilgrims at the Athos border near Ouranopolis, who are trying to get permission to enter the Holy Mountain by land. Today, 5/5/2019,...
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2049 – a report from two Dutch pilgrims of their Athos visit in May 2019
We (Yke and Wouter Bakker, father & son) arrived on May 4 in Ouranoupolis after our flight from Schiphol to Thessaloniki for our second visit to Athos. We visited Athos before in May 2015. We...
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2050 – John Julius Norwich talks about Mount Athos
Norwich in his younger days with his first wife and unicorn tattoo. also read post 1107 and 852 by Herman Voogd
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2051 – 19 May: fire in generator room Panteleimonos, temporarily no pilgrims...
Panteleimonos 2017 On May 19 2019 a fire broke out in the Russian monastery Panteleimonos, as a result of which the monastery generator room was completely burned and the monastery lost its source of...
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2052 – Koutloumousiou revisited
After a short walk in the fog from Karies we reached the monastery of Koutloumousiou. The first monastery we visited in our 2019 pilgrimage. In the archonidiriki we didn’t see the young German...
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2053 – Ouranoupolis port live webcam and Lavra photo webcam
https://www.meteocam.gr/ChalkidikiOuranoupolisPort This a link to a live webcam that is located at the beginning of the Ouranopolis pier, next to the old “Sidney Loch” tower. The live streaming images...
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