Middle of the day not ideal for walking unless it’s overcast. Official shade temperature in the 20’s but moving J’s little magnetic thermometer into full sun yields a reading of 40. There’s a breeze, though, and an afternoon walk is really pleasant. Our road curves north, and following it to the end brings us to St George the Greek Church, or at least ruins of same. It was built around 1300 in mixed Byzantine and Gothic styles in what was then the Greek quarter of the city. Not that the city was short of churches. At one point the story was that there was one for every day of the year, though that can never have been more than joking exaggeration or pious wish. There are still remaining cannon balls from the Ottoman siege of 1571.
Pass later another St George Church - St George Xorinos. This one rather more intact, although inaccessible, also 14th century. It is less ambitious, but St George Xorinos - St George the Exiler - comes with an interesting curse. And no, we didn’t collect any soil.