[MGSA-L] Sinai, forty years ago

George Baloglou gbaloglou at gmail.com
Wed Jun 19 02:05:05 PDT 2013


Yesterday a visiting friend told me of a summer 1973 trip to the Sinai
Peninscula: they rented a car in Eilat* in order to go to the St. Catherine
Monastery**, but first they ended up in an abandoned village ... featuring
a Greek Orthodox church and fishing boats with Greek names -- a Greek
village in the Sinai!?

My friend knows nothing more about this village, which was apparently
abandoned following the Six-Day War: does anyone here know of it, and its
current status?


*Eilat = Israel's port in the Red Sea (the whole discussion started by
comparing swimming experiences there)

**the monks were ecstatic to see Greek visitors, for it seems that
religious tourism was very limited under the Israelis -- in fact the road
maps were very bad, and they wouldn't have found the monastery without
assistance form a monk they met in the said Greek village

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Γιώργος Μπαλόγλου -- Θεσσαλονίκη

http://www.oswego.edu/~baloglou (1988 - 2008)

http://crystallomath.wordpress.com (2009 - )
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