{"id":2225,"date":"2010-09-12T18:55:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T18:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2011-04-12T16:36:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T16:36:13","slug":"rain-and-thunder-welcome-to-armata-celebrations-spetses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=2225","title":{"rendered":"Rain and Thunder welcome to Armata celebrations – Spetses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fireworks display - "Armata" celebrations - Spetses<\/p><\/div>\n

In Spetses town this weekend, all accomodation is fully booked and\u00a0the Old Harbour is filled with boats, as visitors come to the island for the “Armata” festival.\u00a0 Each year, the Saturday closest to 8 September is dedicated to celebrating the events of the Naval Battle of Spetses which took place\u00a0on 8 September 1822, culminating with the historical re-enactment of the torching and sinking of the Turkish flagship in the harbour.\u00a0 Normally a famous Greek singer will perform live and at 2200 hours there is a massive fireworks display by the harbour.\u00a0 This year, the course of events was very much\u00a0dictated to by the weather.<\/p>\n

I awoke yesterday\u00a0at 1015 hours to the sound of rain on the roof – heavy rain\u00a0and then thunder.\u00a0 By mid afternoon when we\u00a0ventured out for lunch, \u00a0it appeared that the weather may have cleared enough for everything to take place according to the programme.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that was not to be.\u00a0 Around 2000 hours the skies opened – a huge deluge leaving\u00a0the streets running torrents of water and there was some doubt as to whether or not the fireworks display would go ahead.\u00a0\u00a0When\u00a0I\u00a0arrived at Bar\u00a0Spetsa, the few early patrons were sitting on chairs and stools in a pool of water,\u00a0outside the Bar the street was flooded and Costas was doing his best to sweep away the water – not a good beginning to the evening!\u00a0 However, as people were still making their way down to the harbour, the powers that be obviously saw a window of opportunity and began the show of fireworks early and what a spectacular show it was.\u00a0\u00a0Although many people were soaked to the bone, it seemed nothing was going to stop them from having a good time and I would guess\u00a0the revellery continued on until daybreak.\u00a0\u00a0 Apparently last year conditions were not a\u00a0great deal better.<\/p>\n

So,\u00a0apart from\u00a0the events of last evening, I am just enjoying the precious days I have to spend here with Costas, every night a few hours in Bar Spetsa, dining out and going to the beach whenever possible.\u00a0 A more private time on this amazing and wonderful journey – living my dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Spetses town this weekend, all accomodation is fully booked and\u00a0the Old Harbour is filled with boats, as visitors come to the island for the “Armata” festival.\u00a0 Each year, the Saturday closest to 8 September is dedicated to celebrating the events of the Naval Battle of Spetses which took place\u00a0on 8 September 1822, culminating with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}