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 ...
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 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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
I had been avoiding it on our trip, but I watched the news today….oh boy!! What a bloody mess, too many angry people in too many places to mention, trouble and strife is rife, when ...