Uh-Oh… Not-So!!
At first glance it looked as though Kamini was under threat of yet another prolonged major noisy construction. The appearance of a bulldozer, tons of rock, and cement bags deposited at the bottom of our ...
An ‘Almost’ Perfect Game
Back in the winter of 1985, a sporting event happened on Hydra, and if it had been officially sanctioned, it would still hold several records in the Guinness Book of ...
Change is coming… like it or not.
Sure, it doesn’t look like much now (my camera phone’s zoom isn’t too strong), a small, innocuous platform bobbing off Kamini. Imagine this same view in a couple of months' time with a thirteen-ish-deck, multi-swimming-pooled, ...
Last Christmas… I Gave You
Last Christmas I gave you my giblets, and you swallowed them whole. This Christmas I'd give you the same but you went away, so I'll give them to someone special... Your old sidekick: Jingle Belle, ...
From Black Friday to White Christmas?
Black Friday, a large rhubarb of silly proportions and a new terminology to us rural Greek folk. Apparently it's when people in the U.S and now spread to the U.K. stampede and maul each other ...
Closing Time
We inmates of Kamini do not define when the seasons change by dates and calenders, but by when dining establishments open and close. It is officially winter when the last taverna shuts down for the ...
Remembering the Fallen
A century on; our little tribute. A wartime small field artillery shell and the closest thing we could find to a poppy around here ...
The Artful Roger
At the traditional Roger-poem-reading for the closing of Pirofani, a certain colourful Barefoot Countess, who shall remain nameless, was heard to say, "I haven't always liked your poetry, but this was a great one". Bravo ...
The Cat Whisperer
Anyone who has strolled through Kamini in the past four decades will recognize the generous hat feeding cats. For those who do not, meet Valerie. She feeds the local strays/street felines of our village daily, ...
‘Tis the Silly Season
August - or as the long term inmates and locals refer to it, the Silly Season, that month of the year when the island feels too hot, too busy, too stressed and patience wears thin ...