Posted on Ιουνίου 30, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, flying, hiking, photography, stories | Tags: aegean, eleni-in-ikaria, flickr, idiosyncratic, ikaria, ikaria-in-winter, ikarians, χειμώνας, ιδιόρυθμος, ιδιοσυγκρατικός, ικαρία, maverick, my-friends, my-idea, up-with-lonely-winter, what-it-takes, winter |
how it is possible and what it takes to spend a long and happy “off seasons” time in Ikaria.
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Posted on Ιουνίου 26, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, hiking, stories | Tags: adventure, april, elsa, enviro-lore, firewood, forest, ikaria, χαζό-χαμόγελο, μονοπάτια, maratho, my-neighbors, oxyzen, trail-of-the-elves, trails, up-with-lonely-winter, walk-hike-wander |
I walk ( I hike, as they say ), I wander on foot. That’s what I do all day. My hips ache. My lungs sometimes ache too (because I’m a smoker; and because I’m half-mad & half Greek, I light my cigarette and I smoke it on the way up -ha,ha,ha)
From the heights of [...]
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Posted on Ιουνίου 24, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, flying, photography | Tags: aegean, edith-nesbit, flickr, for-ikaria, Greece, ikaria, ikaria-in-winter, island, το-νησί, χειμώνας, ικαρία, my-photos, poetry, the-island, up-with-lonely-winter, weather, winter |
The Island
Does the wind sing in your ears at night, in the town,
Rattling the windows and doors of the cheap-built place?
Do you hear its song as it flies over marsh and down?
Do you feel the kiss that the wind leaves here on my face?
Or, wrapt in a lamplit quiet, do you restrain
Thoughts that [...]
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Posted on Ιουνίου 24, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, festivals, stories | Tags: carnaval, carnival, eleni-ik, eleni-in-ikaria, girl, ikaria, ikaria-in-winter, ikarianenigma, χειμώνας, αποκριά, ικαρία, μουτσουνάρηδες, my-photo, up-with-lonely-winter, what-it-takes, winter |
I don’t know if it was out of place and rather ‘un-Greek’ to speak about an investment ‘in green’, but I don’t have to be born and brought up in Greece to understand CARNIVAL !
It’s just broke out here and it took me by surprise because I had forgotten about it and now I [...]
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Posted on Ιουνίου 24, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, photography, stories | Tags: aegean, destiny, enviro-lore, flickr-photos, ikaria, my-beta-blog, opel, photographer, sony, story-of-my-life, teleplaywright, up-with-lonely-winter, winter |
Acknowledgements
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First I’d like to thank everyone of my silent readers. I’d like to meet you all and shake your hands.
Then I’d like to thank S. who understands drama like noone else I know and he is so quick to respond to it. (eh, look out! by drama we don’t mean broken hearts and everybody [...]
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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 24, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, hiking, photography | Tags: adventure, blog, enviro-lore, flickr-photos, ikaria, ikaria-in-winter, χειμώνας, ικ, ικαρία, my-beta-blog, myphotos, snow, sony, up-with-lonely-winter, waves, weather, winter |
this is from when the sea hit me while photo-shooting!
By now I’m professional enough as to ‘click button fast’ even if I’m in danger of being dragged by the waves. The photo came out like this. It’s a documentory, right? Then it could also be in the news as, “Poor Eleni’s last shot seconds [...]
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Posted on Ιουνίου 24, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, flying, hiking, photography, stories | Tags: adventure, donkey, eleni-in-ikaria, enviro-lore, flickr-photos, girl, highlights, highligths, hiking, ikaria, island, γάιδαρος, μονοπάτια, my-beta-blog, opel, preservation, sony, up-with-lonely-winter, winter |
Oh! Muse, chill out Ikarian-wise and let ME sing the furry of the waves…
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I uploaded some new pictures in Flickr yesterday. Then I found them too dull and decided to live up the scene with some motion. The weather was on my side. There was one of those terrific storms again in the sea [...]
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Posted on Ιουνίου 22, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, hiking, stories | Tags: adventure, aegean, agrimi-mou, beach, enviro-lore, flowers, Greece, history, ikaria, αγρίμι-μου, θαλασσόκρινος, ικαρία, lilies, lillies-hippies, minoan, up-with-lonely-winter |
(correct) Θαλασσόκρινος
So it wasn’t the Lady but the Lord with the Lilies.
Nana “la fauve”, my living library walking (on a perfect pair of legs btw) sent me this picture. Noone knows who he was, so they call him conventionaly “the King-Priest with the Lilies”. This is from the palace of Knossos in Crete. Professeur [...]
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Posted on Ιουνίου 22, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, hiking | Tags: adventure, aegean, alcyon, beach, contradictions, eleni, enviro-lore, hippies, ikaria, χειμώνας, ικαρία, lilies, lillies-hippies, lonely-cove, pancratium-maritimum, poetry, up-with-lonely-winter, wasteland |
Ο Θαλασσόκρινος
‘Στη στεριά δεν ζει το ψάρι
ούτε ο ανθός στην αμμουδιά,
κι οι Σουλιώτισσες δεν ζούνε
δίχως την ελευθεριά.’
This is from ‘The Dance of Zalogo’, one of my best favourites in Greek folk verse and music.The words say : “a fish can’t live on the land, neither can a flower live on sand, neither can the women [...]
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