Get out your Kite and Sharpen your Appetite for Clean Monday. After the barbecue-festival of Tsiknopempti (Barbeque Thursday), this is the day when the people of East Crete and the whole of Greece mark the start of a season of fasting before the carnivorous celebrations that take place on Orthodox Easter, 40 days later. It’s called “Kathari Deftera,” which is Greek for Clean Monday, and is considered to be one of the most important feasts all over Greece, each year commencing