Politics and international events receive daily scrutiny by people keeping abreast through radio, television and newspapers.

Nothing escapes the sensitive antennae of these remarkable yet otherwise idle pensioners who have formed closed groups, deep in thought and animated by cultural concerns.

Kato Dafni's water was considered to have therapeutic properties and before the cortisone era many used it to treat skin diseases.

Dafni has been visited by famous contemporaries including the Italian poet and Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale.

Due to language barriers he was unable to converse with the groups of Kato Dafni's passionate discussants.