Palamidi and Old Town Doorway in Nafplio (Photo by author)

Carrying Lemons for the Elderly in Greece

Kirsten Steen

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On a short trip to our favorite Greek town, a small tourist village on a bay in the Peloponnese known as Nafplion, my partner and I (whom I’ve nicknamed The Chef, he being the better cook) walk the open-air market of hardy but exquisite produce and sad fish eyes gleaming in the morning sun. Traversing lines of heaped tables, we revel in brightly-colored blankets, lace tablecloths and pretty cloth napkins. Shockingly…

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Kirsten Steen

Writer, Traveler, For-fun Photographer, Blogger (mostly on Paris). Shorts published in Gemini Magazine & Cascadia Rising Review. www.writeonthyme.blogspot.com