Tag: History

  • Postcard Home: Cyclades part 1 (North Eastern Islands)

    Postcard Home: Cyclades part 1 (North Eastern Islands)

    After finally heading out of the Saronic gulf (the gulf that contains Athens) with a hooray and an over the shoulder wave, complete with all the items we were waiting on from Poros, we headed straight out for the island of Kithnos.  The wind was blowing from the north and we raced along with Intention…

  • It’s All Greek To Me

    It’s All Greek To Me

    It’s always been a love affair between Greece and me. It has been since my arrival in Athens on my 21st birthday after a horror show debacle in Bangladesh. We had been offloaded from a budget airline flight in Dhaka and told we may get another in weeks, if lucky.  At that point we were…