Kastoria day twelve. June 4, 2005. Today we went to Marianthe’s village. Getting there was interesting; Stavros was at work with his car so the only other vehicle was Evangelos’ (Laki) work van. There are three seats in front and in back it is refrigerated to keep the meats he sells cold during delivery. Because there are no windows back there the police stop vehicles like his all of the time looking for illegal Albanian immigrants. On the way there Stella and I rode up front while Joanna and Marianthe rode in back. We passed a police officer that was in the process of arresting an Albanian man that he caught in the trunk of a taxi. If he had not already made that stop we would have been stopped. In comparison to Stella’s village this was huge and quite populated. We met Marianthe’s father, but her mother was not there. She is in Athens getting treatment for an illness. She is doing well enough to come home tomorrow. We went to the village church and to an archeological site that was an ancient church and then they just found out there is a church under that. It was just amazing. I took about 300 pictures. I may or may not post them. It was very beautiful. In the mountains and all that.

¶ 6/04/2005 02:22:00 PM

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