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60 Minutes special on Mt Athos

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:00 am
by rusmeister
What is "The Holy Mountain" where women are not allowed and they still live life as they did a millennium ago? Where you need a visa and it is harder to get into than, as they say, Harvard?

Watch here - it's in 2 parts (about 15 minutes each):

www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7363712n

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:04 am
by SerScot
We watched that Sunday night. It was interesting. I must say I'd have gone to see my Dad one last time. But then I'm not a monastic.

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:37 pm
by rusmeister
SerScot wrote:We watched that Sunday night. It was interesting. I must say I'd have gone to see my Dad one last time. But then I'm not a monastic.
Ditto. But I DO understand the logic.