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Greek Ancient Temples

May 21st, 2009 by ilyani | No Comments | Filed in Greece

History time! :P I just wish these Greece postcards in my hands had already written on them a detailed yet summarized description behind these ancient temples so I don’t need to do further lookup on Wikipedia. But still, I am doing this.. coz I don’t have any information on the cards.. and historical stuff seem to be meaningless without details like dates, legendary stories and blablabla. So please bear with me as much as I bear with these readings okay.

From Marina.. or I can’t actually remember her name but this postcard was from before Postcrossing time, I was doing some souvenir+CD exchange with a Greek girl and she included some unwritten postcards (hence my ignorance about what and where this is before I look up on internet). So these architectural ruins belong to the Temple of Athena Pronaea in Delphi. Delphi is an archaeological site where once was an important site for the worship for the Greek god Apollo and it has been occupied since the Neolithic Period (5000-3000 BC)! This Athena Pronaea was built in dedication to goddess Athena in around 400 BC. On a side note, the archaeological site of Delphi was listed as Unesco World Heritage in 1987.

From Iinaj, she was in Greece for holiday. “Yassas!” is Hello in Greek. Though this structure look similar as Athena’s, they are actually located in another temple away in the Greek island of Aegina. It was built in the 500 BC for the worship for goddess Aphaia.

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People in Greece

April 22nd, 2009 by ilyani | No Comments | Filed in Greece

This is my first entry about Greece, and instead of featuring a postcard showing its place or monuments which I still have very few, I would love to see these cards with people here first. I find it really interesting, to be able to see the real lifestyle in a place… how local people dress and do in their day.. these are absolutely among my favorite theme of postcards!!

From Marnie. It’s such a typical sight in Greece.. and in many other countries too I guess, where some elderly men gather in a coffee shop in their free time.. only Marnie says she was amazed to know how much more men than women seem to go out in Greece.. hmm, now it makes me realized that it’s the same thing in Malaysia as well, especially in smaller towns and villages. But women do go out, too, of course.

From Moisianu. This boy is very happy that he catched two big squids today! :D and take a look again at the first postcards with the cofeeshop men.. see at the back.. they dry squids on the drying lines! I know we have dried squids here as well.. there used to be a time when there existed stalls on bicycle goes around selling dried squids.. and they can be found at night markets as well. Now that I mentioned dried squids, I haven’t eaten them for such a long time! And these Greek squids are relatively bigger in size.. and now I am craving for dried squids :)~ thing is I don’t know where to find one these years… 

From Moisianu. First of all, I love the house! This should be a typical neighborhood in Crete island.. the architecture, the people, the flowers, and the especially the donkey! I love the way they have only small path within the house buildings.. obviously only for pedestrian, donkeys, and bicycles at most.. no cars or engined vehicles and such.

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