The Airharties next to our favorite Tabepna in the beautiful mountain town of Arahova.

The bell tower for this beautiful town! It is the village that supports the popular ski area at Mount Parnassas.

Tabepna = Tavern

It’s all Greek to me is an interesting saying. Greek is difficult. To start with the letters are Greek, although most signs have English letters underneath. Thank goodness for Sororities and Fraternities or we would not even know the alphabet. An interesting aside, the Collegent Greek system was based on, well, the Greeks. In particular the Spartans who would form groups of 15 to 25 individuals, leaving their families to be with this “band” around the age of 7. This was their fighting group, as well as their hanging out with group and they would keep this group for life. Back to the language. Even after you get passed the letters there are strange letter substitutions. Take the word tavern for example in Greek, with English letters, Tabepna. Certain letters are interchangeable, the b and the v, as well as the p and the r. Last year I would often look at the word Antikyra and be amazed at the number of different spellings that I could see. There was no standard. Now I am starting to realize that it is not random but the sounds are unique and the Greeks are not so sure which of our letters best represent the sound. The p = r sound is actually the rolled r as in Spanish. So now we have a little more understanding of something that seemed very difficult and still is but we are closer.