Category: Musings

  • It’s a wrap.  Season 6, 2026

    It’s a wrap. Season 6, 2026

    After leaving Santorini we spent our time managing the question ‘Do we stay in the wind or head for the heat?’ The windy Cyclades lived up to their name this year with the usual summer winds coming and going. They just seem to come more often than before. Not necessarily stronger but just with a…

  • 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…