You are probably aware that there were big fires in the Peloponnese in August 2007. These devastated a very large area. It was heartbreaking seeing the beautiful mountains blackened for kilometre after kilometre. In September, and up to the end of the season, I collected money from customers and friends, and raised a wonderful 1000 euros. I handed this over to the priest in the neighbouring village, with the promise that the money would be used to buy olive trees for the people in the area around Derveni, a small village that I passed through every Sunday on the airport transfer. When I get news of the planting, I will post it here.
The quality of the photos is not brilliant - most of them were taken from the transfer bus the day after the fire, when I was in a state of total shock at the extent of the damage.
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And this is how it used to look:
