The August 15th celebration of the Virgin Mary is the biggest. There are musicians, roasting of lambs and dancing that goes on until dawn. At other times during the year people will visit neighboring villages on their particular Saint's day. Very few villages have hotels but usually there is a guest house of some sort. In the summer the villages are full of activity.
People return from Athens or abroad and the streets are filled with children.
The cafes are filled with men and women who sit outside and enjoy the cool evening air which is filled with music and conversation. Inside, the cafe owner is kept quite busy. The temperature is generally much more pleasant in the mountains of Lesvos than it is on the plains or the coast. Anyway there is no village that is more than twenty minutes away from the nearest beach. And thanks to the local garbage truck the villages are always clean.