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This Month |
It’s Party Season — AGAIN! |
 This
is the month for THE BIG GREEK Summer holiday — On August 15th, we
celebrate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, which is also a National
Holiday. You will be able to find out more about this on our Spotlight
Page. If previous years are anything to go by, Crete will be incredibly
busy during this week. Traditionally this is the time for Greek families
to head for the beach—many camping out overnight. The better known
beauty spots on the South Coast — such as Elafonisi- are particularly
popular and will be chock-a-block. You have been warned! August is also a great time of year for ‘Panigiri’ - religious festivals - throughout the region more about this on our Spotlight page). We will post details of the major ones in the Rethymnon area as we hear of them on the www.rethymnon.biz website. The Renaissance Festival in Rethymnon is now in full swing, and you can find a full programme of events on the next page. There are also a number of other Festivals taking place in the Rethymnon Nomos. These include the Cultural Festival of the Municipality of Kouloukona — which this year is dedicated to the firefighters who lost their lives on 11th July; and a series of cultural events in both the Finikas (Plakias) and Syvritos (Amari Valley) regions. Programme highlights may be found on the www.rethymnon.biz website. If you know of an event that you would like to publicise in the Bugle, contact Kate: editor@rethymnonnews.com / KateBrusten@hotmail.com — the deadline for the next issue is 29/08/07 |
Anapolis Graviera Festival? Perhaps Not
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Wine Festival: End of an Era?
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As
you will discover in the column below, this page suffers a bit from
telling you about Festivals that should have taken place this month…. In
the village of Anapolis, up in the hills above Hora Sfakion,
traditionally in August there is a Graviera (cheese) festival, which is
accompanied by a whole host of cultural and musical events. Sadly, due
to a number of recent deaths in the village, it is not clear at the
moment whether this festival is going to go ahead. Once we know more, we
will update you on the
It’s
now official, there will be no Rethymnon Wine Festival this year. And,
at the moment, it is unclear whether there will ever be another one
again. For some of us, this news really represents the end of our
extended youth: at least one member of the Bugle Team first attended
this event as a ‘wild child’ in 1984. And though she wouldn’t say that
the Festival was ‘the thing’ that made her come and live here full-time,
it, epitomising the Rethymnon ethos, certainly helped. We wanted to have
a little walk down memory lane and share with you our photos and
memories of ‘Rethymnon Wine Festivals we have experienced over the
years’. But, when we looked through the photos from the last couple of
decades, the Wine Festival ones all seemed rather blurred. Nice Site About Minoan Crete
Not just for this month, but for any month, in fact. Our
thanks go to Kath Walls for pointing this out to us. From what we can tell, this
really has to be the most comprehensive site about Minoan Crete on the Internet:
http://www.uk.digiserve.com/mentor/minoan/phylaki.htm
August Trivia |
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03/08/1976: First photos from Mars 05/08/1962: Marilyn Monroe found dead 06/08/1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima 08/08/1974: Nixon resigns 13/08/1899: Birth of Alfred Hitchcock 16/08/1977: Death of Elvis |
19/08/1978: First Trans-Atlantic balloon trip 23/08/1926: Death of Rudolph Valentino 24/08/79: Eruption of Mount Vesuvius 25/08/1944: Paris liberated 28/08/1963: Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech |
