It turns out that the family have not seen Asteris ( the guy my Dad knows) in 12 years. So over a cup of coffee we got to hear in broken English the whole family story. The only one who speaks English is Katarina's husband, Antonio, Katarina is another sister of Asteris. Once the husband arrived we could communicate. There are no hard feelings, they simply haven't kept in touch. So we met Magda, Katrina, her husband, and Dometri, another brother.
Magda is 43 and her husband died 10 years ago. A wonderful family, they let us shower and then rest in her bed for the afternoon. Don't forget we haven't slept since Athens! In the evening they were to take us out. We had agreed to stay for the weekend, as after that they will all be back at work on Monday. We all trooped off the Katarina's house to watch a long wedding video - we wanted to see a traditional orthodox wedding. Then we walked to the only pub in the village which Antonio owns. We had cocoa at the pub and then went into Naoussa for a night out in the "big" city!( for the life of me I can't remember the name of the village they live in, but it was close to Naoussa and was something like Steinmachos or Sterimachos).
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