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From Paradise to Paradise

Posted onNovember 14, 2022October 29, 2022Leave a comment

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 …

Ferry and Ferry Food

Posted onNovember 12, 2022October 29, 2022Leave a comment

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 …

Venice, Windmills and other Rarities

Posted onNovember 10, 2022October 29, 2022Leave a comment

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 …

A Holy Spirited Zeus

Posted onNovember 8, 2022October 29, 2022Leave a comment

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 …

Towering Over the Wrecks of Time

Posted onNovember 6, 2022October 27, 2022Leave a comment

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 …

The Signs of the Times

Posted onNovember 4, 2022October 27, 2022Leave a comment

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

Posted onNovember 2, 2022October 27, 2022Leave a comment

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 …

Cords, Chords and Criers

Posted onOctober 31, 2022October 30, 2022Leave a comment

In the Maritime Museum in Kotor, Montenegro there is sisal rope reeled on a crafted wooden spool.  Now this is no ordinary cord, yet it was!  This is no ordinary spool, yet every sailor knew Read More …

Theatrical Pie

Posted onOctober 29, 2022October 27, 2022Leave a comment

Beneath the shadow of the camera person there is an inlaid section of floor that bears witness to the centuries old tradition of inlaid mosaic floors.  This one likely predating the common era.  The arts Read More …

Walking on Walls and Water

Posted onOctober 27, 2022October 27, 2022Leave a comment

Walking along the preserved walls of the city of Dubrovnik, the fortification was obvious.  This was a walled city and the stones speak out about a history of invasions and conquest and surrender.  The walls Read More …

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