In the sixties the backpacking visitors to Mykonos were rafted, rowed or dumped on Paradise Beach.  We made a return visit to this cultural alcove of free love, free beach, free sharing and even free Read More …

I grew up near the ocean.  The North Sea before school. The Pacific Ocean during school. And on various travels the water’s of the Indian Ocean, the Hong Kong sea, the Red sea, the Atlantic Read More …

The whitewash of Easter is visible year round on Mykonos.  The walls are white, the grout in the walkways is white and the local uniform is white except for Little Venice that is — colour Read More …

Riding in a yellow taxi from the old docks to the city Centre, the driver tried explain his unified God perspective and suggested we consider the possibility that in some Greek Orthodox  circles the ancient Read More …

Much of antiquity is couched in stories with superlatives.  At night the drizzle filtered image dominates the skyline. The historical record and the visible monuments tower over the modern polis of Athens.  At the highest Read More …

On discovering the Temple mounted near Mount Parnassus in Delphi it would be easy to marvel.  A hand hewn temple with inner and outer courtyards surrounded by offering vaults.  A place of power seeking to Read More …

The “city of rocks” is built on more than 1000 outcroppings on which, with impressive hard work, the early monks built the Monastries of the “Holy Meteora.”  To this day six monastic communities continue in Read More …