Kefalonia adventure - part 2 - Old Farsa

We drove up the road of death to find Old Farsa. In 1953 there was a massive earthquake all over Kefalonia and many people were left homeless or killed. There are abandoned villages all over the island, many people left the island for "safer" homes and communities rebuilt on lower ground. Yannis showed us all over Old Farsa. From what I understood of Greek he showed me the old school, library, bath house and town well, and a taverna that was run by members of my family! :)

Here I am standing in what used to be the Voutsinas family taverna!



Old Farsa was really fascinating. We found the old church and graveyard with a Voutsinas family member buried there.

It was really moving to be in a place where so much life once was. Yannis showed us where his family house once was and we saw some amazing views of the newer Farsa from above :)

This is a view of the new cemetary, where my great grandparents are, from Old Farsa. :)

We left the old village and brought Yannis to his store. The girl at the bar told us he had some of the best hot meals, so we thought we'd get lunch. We sat down and he gave us a drink and then started talking about Souvlaki. He said Souvlaki to us and we smiled, nodded yes and said "Souvlaki" back. My thought was that the next thing would be souvlaki sitting in front of us at the table. However, I was wrong. Somehow we couldn't really communicate and we wound up leaving with a croissant stuffed with peach jelly. Yannis wouldn't let us pay so we on our way out of Farsa we stopped at the bar again, gave the young girl(who spoke very good English) some money so that Yannis could have a coffee anytime he wanted, and left him a note that she would translate for him.

We left Farsa discovering that we still had plenty of time (due to our earlier clock/daylight savings time mixup) and headed for Melassani Lake. :)