Posted on Ιουνίου 30, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, flying, photography, stories | Tags: adespotos, aegean, atheras, blackouts, Cézanne, grouvaloi, gruvaloi, ikaria, ikaria-in-winter, imperialist, installation-in-nature, χιόνι, βελανιδιές, βουνό, εθελοντές, ηλεκτρισμός, ικαρία, joseph-beuys, lets-plant-oaks, poetry, power, pregnant, resistance, snow, snow-in-ikaria, utopia, volunteers, war, wind-generators, windmills, zeppelin-ikaria |
Campaigning for forests and wind power generators on my mountain. I am against the one without the other. There has to be both.
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Posted on Ιουνίου 24, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, flying, hiking, photography, stories | Tags: adventure, aegean, enviro-lore, flickr-photos, ikaria, ikaria-in-winter, χιόνι, my-beta-blog, opel, snow, snow-in-ikaria, sony, thalasograph, up-with-lonely-winter, waves, weather, winter |
this is from when I almost fell off the cliff !
Not that it was very high, but still et quand meme and pourtant παρ ολο που λενε πως αν δεν εχεις πεσει πολλες φορες καθως τραβας φωτογραφιες, δεν γινεσαι φωτογραφος, I hate to fall and roll like a bag !
My sin: there upon I [...]
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Posted on Ιουνίου 22, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, hiking, photography | Tags: adventure, aegean, hiking, ikaria-in-winter, ράχες, χειμώνας, χιόνι, ικαρία, μονοπάτια, snow, snow-in-ikaria, up-with-lonely-winter, weather, winter |
How capable one can be ?
This is what the way in front of me looks like. The magical walking stick says ‘30 cm of snow’ and my socks are getting wet.
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Sunday January 29, 2006 – 12:51pm (PST)
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Posted on Ιουνίου 22, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, hiking, photography | Tags: adventure, aegean, eleni, girl, Greece, hiking, ikaria-in-winter, χειμώνας, χιόνι, ικαρία, κρύο, names, snow, snow-in-ikaria, up-with-lonely-winter |
I’m walking on a lane across fields and the last houses of Rahes.
There lives someone I know but I overide the temptation and go on because my name is Eleni Ikanou and this in Greek means ”capable”.
P.S. in Greece girls’ last names are always in the genitive, whereas only boys’ are in the nominative. Let [...]
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Posted on Ιουνίου 22, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, hiking, photography | Tags: adventure, aegean, dog, hiking, ikaria-in-winter, χιόνι, rahes, snow, snow-in-ikaria, trails, up-with-lonely-winter, weather |
The pines in Rahes are ‘Pinus brutia’, trees which enjoy high altitudes and do not mind snow. The locals who love these trees (they are emblematic for the landscape of Rahes) are sorry when they see their lower branches break from the snow and fall off. Yet the snow ‘prunes’ the tree and lets [...]
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Posted on Ιουνίου 22, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, photography | Tags: adventure, aegean, enviro-lore, flickr, ikaria, χειμώνας, χιόνι, ελληνικά-entries, ικαρία, κρύο, snow, up-with-lonely-winter, weather, wildshots |
Hello readers !
I was supposed to write about something else -’wildshots’ – today ( a fine day and everyone is relieved). It doesn’t seem I will, at least for the time being. Instead I will go on with playing with the snow. Though it’s not really uncommon on this island and it has snowed also [...]
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Posted on Ιουνίου 22, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, photography | Tags: angelos-house-rahes, blackouts, cold, electricity, flickr, ikaria, ράχες, χιόνι, άγγελος, ικαρία, pork-chops, rahes, snow, up-with-lonely-winter |
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…and this is the photo I didn’t upload in Flickr !
It’s exactly the same frame but this time flashlit (I am always amazed at the power of my flash) and of course there is Marianina, Angelos’ sweet 10 y.o daughter (my night guide and guardian) in it. You still can’t smell the porkchops, but [...]
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Posted on Ιουνίου 21, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, photography | Tags: adventure, aegean, angelos-house-rahes, blackouts, electricity, flickr, ikaria, ράχες, χιόνι, άγγελος, ικαρία, pork-chops, rahes, snow, snow-in-ikaria, up-with-lonely-winter |
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this is the photo of Rahes I uploaded in Flickr.
scary isn’t it? The place was covered in snow, there was no electricity and nobody seemed to be around. You can’t smell the porkchops from a photo, can you?
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Friday January 27, [...]
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Posted on Ιουνίου 21, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring | Tags: angelos-house-rahes, contradictions, diary, enviro-lore, ikaria, ikarianenigma, ράχες, χιόνι, άγγελος, ικαρία, pork-chops, rahes, snow, up-with-lonely-winter, weather, winter |
I wouldn’t mind writing more about pork chops, or about how well Greeks can deal with contradictions etc. etc. But I can’t share those thoughts in a short blog entry like this. So I’ll just state a few facts:
1) without the terrible surf and devastating winds of the winter, the sea wouldn’t be so blue, [...]
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Posted on Ιουνίου 21, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues | Tags: agrimi, agrimi-mou, angelos-house-rahes, blackouts, diary, electricity, ex-city-girl, firewood, ράχες, χειμώνας, χιόνι, άγγελος, ικαρία, pork-chops, rahes, snow, weather, winter |
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I don’t really know why I wrote that introduction.
Instead I should have written something to thunderbold Nana ‘la femme fauve’-:)) malicious comments… But I feel so good after my visit in Rahes and the hospitality that I received from Angelos’ family strengthened my moral. My situation in the ‘barn’ was not dramatic at all really, [...]
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