When I was admiring the bridge, a couple drove up in this little outfit. I liked it. We struck up a convo about the tear-drop trailer. He said it’s small, easy to pull, and the small Jeep pulls it quite nicely and still provides decent fuel efficiency.
A few meters up the road, it was recommended to me by the South African family to stop at the Jampot bakery and get some donuts and sweet-rolls baked by the Monks.
And this Russian type Skete is where the monks rough it, lol.
The locals hate the monks. Hate is an understatement, the locals want them dead apparently. It wasn’t until after I purchased the sweet-rolls that I heard the whole Byzantine Catholic Monk nonsense is all an act, according to the locals. Apparently, again according to the locals, these monks are a bunch of accountants and tax and land attorneys that swindled the elderly couple who previously owned the Russian Skete out of all their land for pennies on the dollar. :xxbah:
I must say though, for a bunch of swindlers, they sure know how to make homemade jam and sweet-rolls.