{"id":3297,"date":"2023-09-29T22:11:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T19:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2023-09-29T22:11:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T19:11:14","slug":"makronas-and-potamida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/makronas-and-potamida\/","title":{"rendered":"Makronas and Potamida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you enjoyed the drive over to Voulgaro to visit the Agia Irini monastery at Nisi (ref. Explore ! February 2023) then, although with a certain sadness, you will equally like the two short walks described below.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/This-way--768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3306\" style=\"width:482px;height:643px\" width=\"482\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/This-way--768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/This-way--225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/This-way--1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/This-way--1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/This-way--750x1000.jpg 750w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/This-way--scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Drive the same scenic route from Paleochora as previously, through the Tyflos Valley, above Topolia Gorge, and park in Voulgaro \u2018platea\u2019, below Ag. Nektarios church.&nbsp; Adjacent is the excellent I Xara taverna, and after refreshments here, take the minor road opposite, signed to&nbsp; \u2018Gorge of the Fallens in Malathyros\u2019.&nbsp; Crossing the river, park close to another sign, an arrow pointing towards the Monument of 28-8-1944.<\/p><div class=\"utmgr69df3c58bffec\" ><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- convertri page leaderboard -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1583078900392636\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4520084506\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n.utmgr69df3c58bffec {\r\nmargin: 5px;padding: 0px;\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 1201px) {\r\n.utmgr69df3c58bffec {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 993px) and (max-width: 1200px) {\r\n.utmgr69df3c58bffec {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 992px) {\r\n.utmgr69df3c58bffec {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 768px) {\r\n.utmgr69df3c58bffec {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {\r\n.utmgr69df3c58bffec {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n<\/style>\r\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/I-Xara-taverna-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3302\" style=\"width:528px;height:396px\" width=\"528\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/I-Xara-taverna-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/I-Xara-taverna-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/I-Xara-taverna-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/I-Xara-taverna-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/I-Xara-taverna-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/I-Xara-taverna-750x562.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Beyond the church of Ag. Giorgos, the road becomes a track, and in 300m reaches a signpost to Makronas waterfall, but save this until later.\u00a0 Walk on, alongside the Anilios river, passing but not crossing an arched stone bridge, to reach the memorial.\u00a0 This is a peacefully serene location, although inevitably sad, sombre and melancholy.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agios-Giorgos-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3305\" style=\"width:600px;height:450px\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agios-Giorgos-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agios-Giorgos-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agios-Giorgos-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agios-Giorgos-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agios-Giorgos-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agios-Giorgos-750x563.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Agios Giorgos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The track has brought us to the 61 Malathirians Execution Site, and several plaques name 60 local men, whose ages range from 13 to 66 years, who died here on a morning in late August 1944.\u00a0 With just one survivor, and therein lies a piece of history \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Memorial-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3298\" style=\"width:548px;height:411px\" width=\"548\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Memorial-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Memorial-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Memorial-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Memorial-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Memorial-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Memorial-750x563.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Some two decades ago, Lynne and I were walking through (upper) Malathiros, where we met, and were invited into the home of the daughter of Giannis Kartsonakis, the sole survivor of the massacre, and who had only recently died.\u00a0 And she told us his story.\u00a0 Her father, along with sixty others, practically the whole male population of the village, had refused, under duress and torture, to disclose the whereabouts of SOE personnel and resistance fighters in the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On that fateful morning, they were all taken here and shot.\u00a0 Giannis, unconscious and presumed dead, lived :\u00a0 the others died.\u00a0 In later years he was ordained into the Orthodox church, and became the Malathyros village priest.\u00a0 Miraculously, a bullet was deemed too dangerous and precarious to remove, and was never extricated.\u00a0 His daughter has campaigned many years for some reparation and atonement for this atrocity.\u00a0 There has been none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walk on if you wish, to where the path rises above the river for a view into the Halasses or Sassalos Gorge, described in an Explore ! article in November 2014.\u00a0 It was difficult then, and after the heavy rainfall during the winter of 2020\/21, may well now be impassable.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Sassalos-Gorge-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3307\" style=\"width:566px;height:425px\" width=\"566\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Sassalos-Gorge-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Sassalos-Gorge-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Sassalos-Gorge-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Sassalos-Gorge-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Sassalos-Gorge-2048x1537.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Sassalos-Gorge-750x563.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Return down the valley to visit Makronas waterfall, which is only a 15-minute diversion along a clearly marked path.&nbsp; Steps, and a couple of wooden bridges take you there, where the \u2018cataract\u2019 is pretty rather than spectacular, possibly the latter after a storm or heavy rain.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/To-the-waterfall-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3304\" style=\"width:582px;height:437px\" width=\"582\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/To-the-waterfall-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/To-the-waterfall-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/To-the-waterfall-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/To-the-waterfall-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/To-the-waterfall-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/To-the-waterfall-750x563.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Waterfall-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3299\" style=\"width:552px;height:414px\" width=\"552\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Waterfall-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Waterfall-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Waterfall-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Waterfall-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Waterfall-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Waterfall-750x562.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Two kilometres north of Voulgaro on the road to Kissamos, is Potamida, and scenery unlike anywhere else in Crete. Turn off the main road into the village, and drive or walk through, to signs (right) towards the church of Archangel Michael.&nbsp; Here, on the left, are the weirdly shaped \u2018Komolithi\u2019, soft clay structures reminiscent of similar at Cappodocia in Turkey.&nbsp; Safe to walk over, but not climb, the summits are topped with vegetation and small trees.&nbsp; The clay is presumably used in pottery and ceramics, for which Potamida has a reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Potamida-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3300\" style=\"width:638px;height:479px\" width=\"638\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Potamida-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Potamida-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Potamida-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Potamida-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Potamida-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Potamida-1-750x562.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Nearby, again signed, is Potamida\u2019s traditional watermill, in use for some 300 years until abandoned around 1960.&nbsp; We took a path down, to find it closed, but then Nicos, with a key, appeared from nowhere, and showed us inside.&nbsp; Restored in 2013, Nicos told us (in Greek), and explained how the mill ground flour from the area\u2019s many cereal crops.&nbsp; Well worth a visit, to a small museum with some photographs, implements, the waterwheel and millstone still in place.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Water-Mill-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3303\" style=\"width:576px;height:432px\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Water-Mill-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Water-Mill-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Water-Mill-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Water-Mill-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Water-Mill-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Water-Mill-750x562.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>If you still have time and energy, consider driving a further 3km into Kissamos\/Kastelli to visit the excellent and very informative Museum in the town centre,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Footnote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Annually, on the last Sunday in August, a ceremony is held to commemorate the martyrs of Malathyros, in the village centre, above the Platea 28 August 1944, and I drove there recently to attend the 79<sup>th<\/sup> Memorial.&nbsp; The churchyard was packed, with dignitaries in uniform, and all the village, many of the men in Cretan traditional dress.&nbsp; A church service preceded a homily in memory, poems, a lute soloist, and a Rizitika song by a male choir.&nbsp; Many wreaths were laid, and then the names of all sixty men, and their ages, were read by the now elderly son of Giannis Kartsonakis, the only survivor.&nbsp; A trumpet sounded, then a minute\u2019s total silence, followed by the National Anthem of Greece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been very many years since I have been so emotionally moved and close to tears &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Memorial-Day-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3308\" style=\"width:544px;height:408px\" width=\"544\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Memorial-Day-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/main\/domains\/thepaleochorasite.com\/public_html\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Memorial-Day-300x225.jpg 300w, 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Irini monastery at Nisi (ref. 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