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Join us for some special times...
Plan your holiday to coincide with one of our ‘special times’…
Picking olives to make olive oil
Picking grapes to make wine and raki (the local ‘hooch’). Picking Oranges, Grapefruit and lemons
Baking bread in a traditional outside wood oven
A little farming, Local festivals
Thanasis loves to enlighten those that do not know about the cultivation of grapes for the making of wine and the production of raki, about orange, grapefruit and lemon trees and about the growth habits of the olive tree in order to obtain our organic olive oil. In August to September you can join us picking grapes to make wine. In October the raki is distilled and around Christmas you are more than welcome to help with the olive and citrus fruit harvest. Fresh bread is baked at any time of the year in our charcoal oven in Kalamaki. Sometimes, we prefer not to bake the bread and instead, cook a traditional Greek lamb or vegetable dish in the oven. The Greek people love an excuse for a party and Kamilari and Kalamaki have many throughout the year including:
January 6th - Epiphany – Stand on the comfort of the beach as you watch the young men from the village brave the cold sea to retrieve a cross that the priest has thrown in.
Carnival – to mark the beginning of Lent 40 days before Easter - Children dress up in costumes and floats go through the local towns of Mires, Timbaki and Pombia.
Orthodox Easter -Candlelight processions begin the Easter celebrations on Good Friday culminating in fireworks and a bonfire around midnight of Easter Saturday/Easter Sunday.
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May 1st – May Day – Gather flowers and celebrate the beginning of summer with singing and dancing around the local village water spring.
July 20th – Kalamaki Village Glendi – a party of eating, traditional music and dancing, going on to the small hours, to commemorate the Saint day of the village church of Kalamaki.
August 6th – Kamilari Village Glendi - a party of eating, traditional music and dancing, going on to the small hours, to commemorate the Saint day of the village church of Kamilari
Plus of course, if you are lucky, you may be here for a village wedding or baptism...
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