Year: 2023

Yes, there are a few days which are like this. It’s winter remember. I still cant marry winter and June. We may need to hang onto this image. El Nino is apparently now upon us. I love those raindrops suspended on the berries. The dew on the Poinsettias. Over the weekend just gone, I took…

I went to an ADFAS lecture today and its title was the POWDER and the GLORY! Well that was a great little play on words and the lecture was an insight into this cosmetic empire started by a young Jewish Pole called Helena Rubinstein. What I didn’t know is that she was the eldest of…

In my short time here in Cyprus I had the privilege to be shown around an Exhibition at the Cyprus Museum called in “In the same place” by my niece Katerina Attalidou, who over the past few years has been travelling to every corner of the island producing watercolours which have been matched with archaeological…

The signs were not favourable. A weather forecast of a storm and strong winds ahead. We set off immediately worried that we might get stuck in Chalki. The sea was churned up and we lurched a lot, got sprayed a ton and wondered if breakfast would stay down. Mercifully the spectre of the mighty storm…

On Nisyros we visited Mandrakia the capital of the island. More Cats. Volcanic rocks everywhere. Quaint little streets and shops. The best message through a window. On the way out we stopped at Yiali a limestone and sand quarry for a long swim before heading to Kos. The island of Hippocrates to welcome George and…

It was a heavenly refreshing dip, literally and metaphorically. As I decided to have a break from my computer this is an- after- the event posting with snippets of the week. We started our journey in Rhodes. Our first stop along the way was to Agios Giorgos o Dysalotos- St George who is difficult to…

We decided to forego the broad highway and the roadsides of pink and white oleanders for the twisty mountain roads through pine and cedar forests and what we thought was a mouflon sighting. It turned out to be a wild goat. The air was scented with pine and the only sounds was an the occasional…

The distance is great but we have synchronised our separate lives to flow together for some minutes of most days. Being closer physically however has its own rewards as we sip Keo beer, plan the next meal, and stare out to sea, compare the lack of elasticity on our wrinkly skins, dredge memory banks for…

It’s the first day of winter and we are feeling the cooler weather though the days are still warm and sunny and the skies an unending blue. Heading out with Nick for a walk we stop and stare at lots of the amazing plants and trees we came across. The children from the kindie are…

A career change – And so on his 69th Birthday he received a Birthday card from me – I dont mind saying it is a winner ! And in this birthday card apart from a special message from me was his first paycheck – yes, you heard me. Academia will be thing of the past…