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Tag: emotions

  • 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…

  • Taking the long way home

    Taking the long way home

    Living overseas for an extended period always requires quite a bit of planning and in my experience staying flexible when things change is an essential skill when it comes to finding a way forward. To get to our home port of Aigio took some fancy footwork this year! Once again we decided to start our…