Blog Review Ikaria 2008-2011 # 1
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 17 Σεπτεμβρίου, 2011 Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, hiking, ikaria, photography, stories | Tags: aegean, architecture, blog, blog review, camping-in-ikaria, environment, Greece, highlights, hiking, ikaria, island in the aegean sea, ικαρία, μονοπάτια, links, my-friends, spring, winter 6 ΣχόλιαI am very interested in reading personal accounts about my island. To keep in touch with the place, media is good but there’s nothing like reading actual people’s impressions and looking at their photos.
Here is a list of blog entries about Ikaria that I like. I have been keeping them in my bookmarks since 2009 and I think that by now the list has grown long enough to share it with my readers. Because my ambition was this to be a review and not just a list of blog entries, I wrote a few words about each and picked out pictures and quotes. These quotes I sometimes hid «behind the pictures». Move your mouse over to read them.
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The first blog entry in my bookmarks was by Danae (aka chez mon double). It’s in Greek and I think it’s one of the best.
Μια τυχερη περιηγηση στον καλυτερο μηνα της χρονιας με καταπληκτικες αντιπροσωπευτικες φωτογραφιες και οξυδερκεις περιγραφες που φανερωνουν διαβασμα και προετοιμασια. Οπως συνηθιζω, εχω κρυψει μερικες πισω απο τις εικονες και διαβαζονται περνωντας το ποντικι απο πανω τους.
Κι εδω τελειωνει. Ευχαριστουμε. Ξανα το καλοκαιρι.
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The next blog entry is also in Greek by ‘ikaroia’, a quiet, discreet character who loves Ikaria and Reggae music. One of the entries is about camping and this entry has become one of the most popular ones -if not THE most popular- about Ikaria in the web! That for undestandable reasons. There is in fact a huge interest in camping in the island. When I, years ago posted my idea about it, the entry got -and still gets- top hits!
«…Για μένα η λύση είναι μια! Ξεκάθαρη και την έχω ξαναγράψει σε παλιότερο ποστ. Η δημιουργία camping στην Ικαρία !..»
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Διαβαστε οπως τα γραφει γιατι εγω δεν εχω να προσθεσω τιποτα. Εχει απολυτο δικιο! Θα τονιζα μονο αυτο που ηδη λεει, δηλαδη, να γινει ενα σωστο καμπινγκ σε ωραιο μερος, οχι μια ‘μαντρα’ ανοιγμενη με μηχανηματα καπου στο πουθενα που θα θυμιζε στρατοπεδο συγκεντρωσης…
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The next blog in my bookmarks is a great favorite. It’s in English and it contains several entries about Ikaria on various subjects (hiking, wildlife, maps, local life, adventures and the sad barrel dogs) each one illustrated with outstanding photos. This is Connecting Dots by Jernej Burkeljca, a Slovenian who spent 3 months and 1 week in Ikaria and wrote everything about it.
It’s hard to dig and choose from Jernej’s entries. They start with
the very flattering for my friends’ work «Hikers guide to Ikaria»
the troubles and excitements of the photographer in the wild
the extreme… «Rock hoppers»
the sad story of «The guard dogs»
(eventually called "barrel dogs")
the big adventure of «The Ridge walk» in 2 days!
an introduction to Ikaria’s rivers in the «Canyoning guide to Ikaria»
Have you noticed how good the photos are in the above entries?
See more and better in the galleries: Ikaria part 1 and Ikaria part 2.
Thank you Jernej!
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Can you speak Finnish? The last blog to review today is Johanna Robinson’s from Finland who was in Ikaria in the same period and for the same reasons as Jernej Burkeljca. Her blog entries about Ikaria make out a full diary of her stay in the island and for the little I could translate from Finnish, they were very interesting as to know how a 20 year old foreigner from up north feels in a remote island like Ikaria and in… winter!
But the actual excitement about Johanna’s blog is the photos! Unfortunately, there is no «gallery Ikaria» but if you scroll up and down her archives starting from April 2008 you will be amazed! Landscapes, adventures, smiling faces, bugs, flowers. I loved her flowers!!!
Somebody should dedicate a full article on Johanna’s photos from Ikaria. It would take time to pick, copy-paste and formate them in a special «photo entry» but they are so beautiful I think it’s worth the trouble. Some day.
Thank you!
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(to be continued...)
Eleni's Blog in Ikaria 
Witnessing the first of another
SuperProduction on Eleni's Channel!. Excellent selction and review! Hopefully aSimplyFinnish (?) coming soon? 😀Thanks for always being by our side.
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It should be said that the credits go to the bloggers, rather than the reviewer, don’t they? This is why I restrained myself and wrote as few words of my own as possible. But thanks anyway. To review and formate all this material was hard work. Love to *stay connected* though, that’s the thing.
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You made me blush 🙂
coincidentally… you probably haven’t heard it yet but Johanna and I are married now
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Aren’t WP pingbacks great?!
Dear Jernej, take it as a warm and strong handshake due to you since long ago. Aye, the sweet Ikarian moons and the bitter Corsican honeys…
I know my friend, I know. Live long and happy together.
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[…] Thinking about it, I could have just reblogged, but no, I said. I believed that my first champions, Danae, Ikaroia, Jernej and Johanna, deserved more than to recommend a link and perhaps also decorate it with a sample photo. Since […]
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