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Hot-Air Balloons: A Unique Greek Easter Spectacle “hot-air balloon II” Credits: Spiros Vathis/CC BY-ND 2.0 A spectacular tradition that Greeks have adopted for Easter is sending glowing hot-air balloons into the night sky in celebration of Easter celebrating “Christos Anesti” (Christ Resurrected). Greek Orthodox Easter, or Pascha, is the most important religious feast of the year, with customs and traditions that have been part of Christianity for two thousand years, making the feast a colorful one after the Lenten mourning for the Passion of Christ. ” width=”1080″> Many of the ...

Here's what's going on in Dubai and Abu Dhabi this week 1 of 8 GREEK EASTER AT GAIA DUBAI: Embracing the cultural customs of Greece, GAIA provides a welcoming home away from home for all this Orthodox Easter. Loved ones can share special dishes such as the Yuvarlakia, a traditional meatball soup, after starters of crisp Greek Salads and Fava, Taramasalata & Melitzanosalata to spread on freshly baked bread. To follow, diners can indulge in a selection of freshly sourced fish and seafood, hand-chosen from the Ice Market and cooked exactly to preference, alongside sides of pot...

For Babka and other sweet breads. It’s CY for me. Sweet and sour works for Chinese food, but not sure about bread. But the above is my preference, others may disagree. Ilya Flyamer Well, in my limited experience the sour taste is not really pronounced in enriched baked goods, it's masked by the sweetness mostly. But I also don't dislike the very light acidity that comes through, I feel it's nicely balanced with the sweet taste and other flavours. It must extend the shelf life too, btw. But it appears beyond very light level of enrichment I'm going to add some CY too in the future, for the...

By Dimitri Kallos Sydney Olympic came from behind twice against Sutherland Sharks to claim a hard-fought 3-2 victory away from home at Seymour Shaw Park in the 10th round of NPL NSW. The victory puts Olympic on 16 points and only three points away from league leaders Blacktown City who they face next week. The match began strongly for Olympic with defender Jason Madonis’ cross finding forward Oliver Pufflet, who headed it onto the crossbar in the 2nd minute. Sutherland punished Olympic seven minutes later for their missed chance when a lobbed through ball found forward James Andrew, whose r...

The Spectacular Easter Flames On Santorini’s Pyrgos Santorini’s Pyrgos shining against the night sky on Easter. Credit: Stefanos Simeonidis Santorini is already renowned for its magnetic lure for every traveler looking to experience an holiday in Greece. Beautiful white beaches that are dotted with villages along its coast are second to none in their unflinching ability to capture the imagination of visitors. Easter in Greece is something to behold. The holiday is singularly one of the most important holidays in the Orthodox liturgical year and its defined by the lively celebrations that ...