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  • Postcard from Santorini – Am I Dreaming?

    Postcard from Santorini – Am I Dreaming?

    My first visit to Santorini was a month or so after my 21st birthday.  I have a blurred montage of memories, of pieces, images and a felt sense of the baked earth, the summer sun and the impossibility of the place. The deep, dark blue of it. The other worldliness of it.  Of dancing to…

  • From Kerkira (Corfu) to Kos

    From Kerkira (Corfu) to Kos

    As I sit on the rocky barren edge of Kos one of the most easterly islands in Greece, looking out across to Türkiye writing this it’s actually hard to cast my mind back to Corfu at the far west edge of Greece.  It feels like another place in another time mainly because of the territory…

  • Beyond the daily grind…..What do we do all day?

    Beyond the daily grind…..What do we do all day?

    Days begin as they always do for us whether on land or the boat.  One or the other of us, often me, will say Coffee?  It’s a one word question and usually but not always I will clamber over my husband to drop down off our super high bed and head to the galley to…