On the spot: Esphigmen, Sveta Gora
Since the corona virus pandemic, the inevitable question that the monk on duty at the entrance to the monastery will ask you is - have you been vaccinated... If you want to take coffee to them, you must make sure that it is in packaging that does not have a barcode printed on it, and in the conversation with the monks you can hear the story of how the pope takes on his true, reptilian form during the night and nervously walks around the Vatican palaces thinking of how to expel the true Orthodox from Esphygmen. The circumstances in which this community lives are difficult, there is no electricity, there is only one generator that supplies electricity to a lathe for cutting wood logs, and the vehicle fleet mainly consists of ancient jeeps that the Greek army received from its Anglo-Saxon allies more than half a century ago...
