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This Month
There’s Much to do in March!
Yes, yes, yes, I know, after all the Carnival partying, Lent should be a time for all of us to calm down and this should be a quiet month.
But there are several things happening in town in March, as you will discover when you read through our pages . Our big national holiday is on the 25th March. This is an important holiday for both religious and secular reasons. In the Orthodox Calendar, March 25th is celebrated as the feast of the Annunciation, it is also marked as commemorating the beginning of the Greek War of Independence which started in 1821. All public offices and most shops will be closed, and there will be military parades in town - generally around mid morning.
A BIG FLAG that we didn’t manage to fit in on our Community Page: Friends of Animals Rethymnon will be hosting a fund raising benefit lunch as an early Saint Patrick’s celebration at the White Lady Taverna in Platanes on 14th March For further details / reservations, please contact Clodagh on 6945 170 226, Antonia on 6985 084 555 or email: booking@whitelady.gr
God of the Month: Pan
A huge cheers to Arlette Veltjen - and partner Triantafillos of course - from Restaurant Paradiso in Agia Galini for this suggestion (and lunch was absolutely great, by the way, recommended by the Bugle gourmets!) for a new monthly feature. But apologies to Arlette, too for not getting my act together and producing a proper mini calendar / reference chart for events in March as she also suggested. Ran out of space and time. Will try to do better in April. Anyway this month our featured God is Pan. “Why not Apollo aka Mars?” I hear you cry. Well, just because. And Apollo gets a look in anyway. When Pan had a music contest with Apollo, Pan lost. It is not clear from the ancient myths whether Apollo was playing the accordion at the time. Pan is probably best known in Northern Europe for his association with pipes - the musical kind, of course (next month we might do the God of plumbing, but we make no promises). Pan was actually a bit of a bad man. Some say he was one of the sons of Zeus (but let’s be honest, which self respecting god wasn’t a son of Zeus in those days?). He was a bit of a goat and frolicked a lot. He also created anxiety in public places, and it is from him that we get the word ‘panic’.
Exhibition of Photographs by Marianne Pryor
An exhibition of photographs by Marianne Pryor opens this month at the
Figaro Bar in Rethymnon Old Town. In her photographs, Marianne aims to capture the intricate beauty of ordinary everyday things. The results are often semi-abstract, highlighting tiny details of colour and texture. Marianne writes: ‘It’s so easy to take our environment, natural and man-made, for granted, so it’s always a thrill to be suddenly brought up short by things like the delicate pattern of the grain on a telegraph pole, or the frothy lace of a wild carrot flower. I try to freeze that ‘WOW!!!’ moment of discovery.’ Bugle readers are warmly invited to the
Private View which will take place on Friday 12 March from 8pm. The exhibition will then run from
13 – 27 March, open every day from 10am to 8pm. The Figaro café-bar is at Emmanouil Bernardou 21-23 (opposite the House of Culture on the street with the big minaret). For more information please phone Marianne on 6978 677913.
Bugle Outlets and Contact Details
Printed copies of the Bugle are distributed in a variety of locations around town. These include: International News - Mini Market (Square of Unknown Soldier), Satellite Tourist Services (Sof Venizelou 21, by the Marina), Tapas y Vinos (Melissinou 14), Galero Bar (Rimondi Fountain), Mediterraneo Bookstore (Paleologou), Octopus (Tsouderon 13), Stella’s Kitchen / Olga’s Pension (Soulion Street), Friends of Animals Charity Shop in Pigi, The Terrace in Platanes, Fantasia Kinderland in Kavros and Restaurant Paradiso in Agia Galini.
To contact the Bugle, telephone Kate Brusten on 28310 54594 / 6942635515, or email editor@rethymnonnews.com – the deadline for the next issue is 22/03/10.
All previous issues have been archived on this site and can be viewed through the archive section.
