Covid Pass

 On Wednesday I had my third Covid shot. A bit of pain that night and the next morning, but it faded fast. Today I went out to pay my electricity bill in Downtown Patras. KEP (social security office) is close by the Protergia office where I pay the electricity bill so I decided to take my 3rd Covid appointment paper with me, just in case the government had already updated my vaccination status.

I took the train to the last stop, Agios Andreas, and walked along the ocean towards the KEP office.
New cat houses!

At the KEP office there was no line of people waiting outside. I went in.
10 minutes later I had a printout with the new QR code.
I walked on the main shopping street to the Protergia office.
Busy on the street, no lockdown!

From the downtown station I took the train back home.

Covid Booster shot

Yesterday was my Covid booster shot appointment, at 16.00hr. I took the train at 13.10 and got off at the downtown station.
The main shopping street was very busy, as there is no lockdown, a check at the entrance of stores of proof of vaccination, recovery or test result.

I walked Agios Nikolaos street, and up the stair case to the top.

From the top I walked to the Agio Andreas Hospital. I got there at 14.15. Early, but I figured, that like in June, when I was there for my second shot, that there would not be a long wait. 

I was helped right away. From the hospital I walked down Smirnis street to the Agios Andreas train stop, to go back home. 

Merry Christmas & Best Wishes for New Year

 

Rain in Greece

It has been raining a lot the last 3 weeks. I have spent the winters in Athens since Jan 2013.
Here a blog post from 2013: https://bigfoottravels.blogspot.com/2013/01/jan-10-2012-diary-greece.html  
I don't remember it raining so may days...... 

I do remember it raining every day when I spent a winter in the south of Crete....

Olives harvesting

Last year it was November 22-25 that olives were harvested in the garden. Below my Blog post of that harvest. 

This year the harvest was Dec 02-05 and yield was smaller:810 kg > 112 liter olive oil. 

The gardener and the house each get 50%.

Olives harvesting in Greece. With chainsaws branches are cut from the olive trees and from the cut branches the olives are stripped. The bags way about 220 lbs each. 

The garden has 20 olive trees and produced 11,000 pounds. 

about 6 kg of olives are needed to produce 1 liter of olive oil. 

Olives trees can have yearly high or low yield. This year is a low yield.

Dec 03, 2021: Patras, storm damage on Nov 29

There was a big storm, all along the coast, on Nov 29.
On my run this morning I noticed a lot of storm waves damage to the road.

Around the curve is most of the damage.

Along the boardwalk, and further North where it becomes one road with a pedestrians/runners lane on the ocean side of the asphalt road. The waves had taken big chunks of the road. Where there is a double line I had to get of the main road because of debris, ranging from rocks anywhere between 5-20 centimeter and plates of asphalt 1x2 meters. Also a construction crew clearing the debris away.

The storm waves got on the road a distance of 3-10 meters from the shoreline (the road is between 1-3 meters high than the shoreline!)

Corona Virus

Here in Greece my Corona vaccination would expire on Jan 10 (7 months after the second shot on Jun 10) and, as I am over 60, I would get fined 100 euros per month.

So, my third (the booster) shot appointment is on December 22.....