A Mountain called “The Wild Bee” (TUGTII #3)
Posted on Νοεμβρίου 1, 2009. Filed under: exploring, hiking, photography, stories | Tags: ikaria, ικαρία, adventure, μονοπάτια, aegean, enviro-lore, Greece, guide, the unofficial guide to ikaria island, photography, TUGTII, rocks, Melissa, placenames, bee, wild bee, mountain top, Αγριομέλισσα |
Strange name for an island’s mountain top
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )“Misokolaki” and other scary tales from Ikaria in comics
Posted on Ιουλίου 3, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, flying, stories | Tags: aegean, carnival, comicart.gr, comics, folktale, good-book, Greece, ikaria, islands, παραμύθι, αποκριά, ικαρία, μισοκωλάκι, legends, misokolaki, pear-tree, tale, witch, witchcraft |
Old folktales from Ikaria
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )TRUTHS
Posted on Ιουλίου 2, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, hiking, stories | Tags: adventure, art, environment, Greece, hiking, ikaria, installation-in-nature, μονοπάτια, joseph-beuys, map, my-friends, nature, truths |
About a very different ecotour project.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sweet Little Comforts
Posted on Ιουλίου 1, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, festivals, flying, stories | Tags: agrimi-mou, athens, destiny, diary, environment, family, Ferlinghetti, Greece, ikaria, New-Zealand, poetry, story-of-my-life, tama, thoughts, wedding |
I am in Athens and deciding to settle in Greece
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )“my own Ikarian” waterfall comes from Tarascon, France !
Posted on Ιουνίου 29, 2009. Filed under: exploring, flying, photography, stories | Tags: aegean, agriculture, eleni-in-ikaria, enviro-lore, food, France, gardens, Greece, γεωργία, my-kitchen, potatoes, shower, tarascone, waterfall |
This is a small waterfall in Tarascon, France.
The photo was taken by the son of a friend and I found it in Flickr.com. Because my “Beta” blog refuses to accept decent html code, I had to download it from http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfin/162878721/ and load it again here.
I was surprised when I saw this photo. I thought [...]
“Ze Sntory Ov My Live” (Episode 1)
Posted on Ιουνίου 27, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, stories | Tags: family, giagia, Greece, immigrants, χαζό-χαμόγελο, ελένη, ικ, my-sponsor, story-of-my-life, teleplaywright |
“Ze Sntory Ov My Live”
(oops, I forgot to blow my nose, …HONK, ok, so here we go again…)
“The Story Of My Life”
Starring Eleni Ikanou (as Eleni Ikanou) and others (as others)
EPISODE 1
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My name is Eleni Ikanou. I was born in B. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )“Easter Eggs red-dyed herbal and Ikarian-wise” -3
Posted on Ιουνίου 26, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, stories | Tags: aegean, byzance, easter, Greece, Greek-easter, ikaria, πάσχα, κόκινα-αυγά, orthodox, recipes, red-eggs, spring, tradition |
dye red eggs for a Greek Easter in Ikaria
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )“Easter Eggs red-dyed herbal and Ikarian-wise” -step 2
Posted on Ιουνίου 26, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, festivals, photography, stories | Tags: easter, eleni-in-ikaria, Greece, Greek-easter, πάσχα, ικαρία, κόκινα-αυγά, recipes, red-eggs, spring |
Step 2
When the water has turned dark red, take the eggs out.
Leave them on a plate to dry. Do not sweep with a towel.
Tags: πάσχα, κόκινα-αυγά, easter, red-eggs |
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )My own unphilosophical, untheological, unecological and secret Greek Easter
Posted on Ιουνίου 26, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, festivals, flying, stories | Tags: aegean, byzance, easter, eleni-in-ikaria, Greece, Greek-easter, ikaria, island, πάσχα, ικαρία, κόκινα-αυγά, mystic, orthodox, red-eggs, spring, swallows, what-it-takes |
About the Greek Orthodox Easter and an Orthodox Easter in general you can find loads of info and personal accounts just about anywhere in the press, in books, on the net even in the National Geographic and the French ‘Geo’. Because I live in a remote island village (the epitome of the so-called ‘authenticity‘), oh, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )“Foret de Bouconne” ? What does this have to do with Ikaria?
Posted on Ιουνίου 26, 2009. Filed under: hiking, stories | Tags: easter, eloquence, enviro-lore, flickr, for-ikaria, France, girl, Greece, grouvalina, icaria, nature-culture, preservation, preserve, principles, story-of-my-life, suburban, suburbia, trails |
as much I like the nomad backpackers, as much I like those people who have adopted and cherish only one particular place on earth. I can be a fancy tourist resort, a park, a block of houses in a town, just a street, a beach, a starved African country, a desert, a forest, a [...]
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