Urban travel tales

Discovering sweet delights in Athens, traditional & healthy

October 20, 2018 by Lisa Samloglou

The purpose of my blog: Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey!       What inspires me is a traveler’s not a tourist’s approach and the desire to share it with the world and make it more beautiful, a home where everyone may find the space for active love and purposeful creativity. Since 1930 they make cheese pies, “oriental sweets” like […]

Categories: Athens for your eyes only, Αθήνα για τα μάτια σου μόνο, Ταξιδιωτικά μου Ημερολόγια, My Travel Journals • Tags: Athens Greece, City, Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, Culture, Αθήνα, Ελλάδα, Πολιτιστική κληρονομιά, journalism, Urban travel tales

Σαββόπουλος, Μια βραδιά στο Ηρώδειο

September 27, 2018 by Lisa Samloglou

Ο στόχος του blog μου: Να προβάλλω τα ευεργετήματα που προκύπτουν όταν αγκαλιάζουμε την Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά και την Οικολογία. Οι αναρτήσεις Ελληνικά και Αγγλικά γίνονται κατόπιν ενδελεχούς επιμέλειας και έρευνας, με δικές μου φωτογραφίες. Απολαύστε το ταξίδι!   Εμπνέομαι από τη προσέγγιση της ταξιδιώτισσας, όχι της τουρίστριας και από την  επιθυμία να μοιραστώ αυτήν την οπτική για να κάνουμε τον κόσμο πιο όμορφο, ένα σπίτι όπου ο καθένας θα βρίσκει το χώρο όπου θα εκφράζει ενεργητικά την αγάπη του και […]

Categories: Athens for your eyes only, Απόψεις, Αθήνα για τα μάτια σου μόνο, Ταξιδιωτικά μου Ημερολόγια, My Travel Journals • Tags: Art, Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, Culture, Europe, Greece, Αθήνα, Πολιτιστική κληρονομιά, Πολιτισμός, Τέχνη, journalism, Life, Travel

Miriam Caskey, Stories from the Archaeological Excavations at the site of Ayia Irini, Kea 1960-1980

September 26, 2018 by Lisa Samloglou

The purpose of my blog: Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey!       What inspires me is a traveler’s not a tourist’s approach and the desire to share it with the world and make it more beautiful, a home where everyone may find the space for active love and purposeful creativity. Miriam Caskey, Stories from the Archaeological Excavations at the site […]

Categories: Greek islands, Απόψεις, My Travel Journals, Stories not so Short • Tags: Archaeology Greece, Archaeology Mediterranean, Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, Culture, Greece, Greek islands, Greek Museums, journalism, Kea island, Kea/Tzia, Life, Memoir, Travel, Tzia/Kea

Miriam Caskey, Μικρές Ιστορίες από τις Αρχαιολογικές Ανασκαφές στην Αγία Ειρήνη 1960-1980

September 24, 2018 by Lisa Samloglou

Ο στόχος του blog μου: Να προβάλλω τα ευεργετήματα που προκύπτουν όταν αγκαλιάζουμε την Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά και την Οικολογία. Οι αναρτήσεις Ελληνικά και Αγγλικά γίνονται κατόπιν ενδελεχούς επιμέλειας και έρευνας, με δικές μου φωτογραφίες. Απολαύστε το ταξίδι!   Εμπνέομαι από τη προσέγγιση της ταξιδιώτισσας, όχι της τουρίστριας και από την  επιθυμία να μοιραστώ αυτήν την οπτική για να κάνουμε τον κόσμο πιο όμορφο, ένα σπίτι όπου ο καθένας θα βρίσκει το χώρο όπου θα εκφράζει ενεργητικά την αγάπη του και […]

Categories: Greek islands, Απόψεις, Ταξιδιωτικά μου Ημερολόγια, My Travel Journals, Stories not so Short • Tags: Archaeology Greece, Archaeology Mediterranean, Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, Culture, Greece, Greek islands, Αρχαιολογία Μεσόγειος, Ελλάδα, Κυκλάδες, Κέα/Τζιά, Πολιτιστική κληρονομιά, Πολιτισμός, journalism, Kea island, Life, Memoir, Travel, Tzia/Kea

Lost in interpretation

February 14, 2017 by Lisa Samloglou

Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, most posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey!                                                                                          2017 © Copyright.  All rights reserved; initial post 14 February 2017 – […]

Categories: My Travel Journals, Poetic prose, Reflections on love and other arts • Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, Nature, Poetic prose, Richmond-upon-Thames, United Kingdom

τα Αρχαία Ελληνικά στέρεα πατήματα στα μονοπάτια που θα διαβαίνουμε

June 5, 2016 by Lisa Samloglou

Ο στόχος του blog μου: Να προβάλλω τα ευεργετήματα που προκύπτουν όταν αγκαλιάζουμε την Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά και την Οικολογία. Οι αναρτήσεις Ελληνικά και Αγγλικά γίνονται κατόπιν ενδελεχούς επιμέλειας και έρευνας, με δικές μου φωτογραφίες. Απολαύστε το ταξίδι!   Εμπνέομαι από τη προσέγγιση της ταξιδιώτισσας, όχι της τουρίστριας και από την  επιθυμία να μοιραστώ αυτήν την οπτική για να κάνουμε τον κόσμο πιο όμορφο, ένα σπίτι όπου ο καθένας θα βρίσκει το χώρο όπου θα εκφράζει ενεργητικά την αγάπη του και […]

Categories: Απόψεις, Ταξιδιωτικά μου Ημερολόγια, Publications, Reflections on love and other arts • Tags: Cultural heritage, Culture, DonDeLillo, Europe, Greece, Αρχαία Ελληνικά, Ελλάδα, Ελληνική γλώσσα, Λογοτεχνία, Πολιτιστική κληρονομιά, Literature, Urban travel tales

Creative Work: ‘Mad Love Goes to the Beach’ by Lisa Samloglou

February 7, 2016 by Lisa Samloglou

Originally posted on Words, Pauses, Noises:
In her short piece, ‘Mad Love Goes to the Beach,’ Lisa Samloglou engages all five of her reader’s senses as she chronicles her internal struggle between her childhood love of the countryside with her rebellious teenaged preference for the city. She allows us to see the lush green of the landscape outside of Athens, smell the sea salt as she walks along the beach and picks up shells, hear the cicadas hum late at night, feel the…

Categories: Publications, Reflections on love and other arts, Stories not so Short • Tags: Art, Cultural heritage, Greece, Life, Memoir, Photography, Publications

‘Every sound traveler conceives all the time the country he/she is traveling ‘ N. Kazantzakis

November 20, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

for Greek http://goo.gl/NHUQbJ Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey! 2013 © Copyright.  All rights reserved  On the wall there is a map marked with the places I wanted to visit. Adolescence. Back then, we did not travel in the internet. We had relatives arriving from landscapes as diverse as New York and Sudan where they had emigrated and settled. I dreamed […]

Categories: My Travel Journals, Reflections on love and other arts • Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, Culture, Greece, Greek Literature, Life, Literature, Long Reads, Nikos Kazantzakis, Photography, Travel, Urban travel tales, Writing

«Κάθε άρτιος ταξιδευτής δημιουργάει πάντα τη χώρα που ταξιδεύει» Ν. Καζαντζάκη

November 20, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

 for English/ Ο στόχος του blog μου: Να προβάλλω τα ευεργετήματα που προκύπτουν όταν αγκαλιάζουμε την Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά και την Οικολογία. Οι αναρτήσεις Ελληνικά και Αγγλικά γίνονται κατόπιν ενδελεχούς επιμέλειας και έρευνας, με δικές μου φωτογραφίες. Απολαύστε το ταξίδι!   Εμπνέομαι από τη προσέγγιση της ταξιδιώτισσας, όχι της τουρίστριας και από την  επιθυμία να μοιραστώ αυτήν την οπτική για να κάνουμε τον κόσμο πιο όμορφο, ένα σπίτι όπου ο καθένας θα βρίσκει το χώρο όπου θα εκφράζει ενεργητικά την αγάπη […]

Categories: Ταξιδιωτικά μου Ημερολόγια, Stories not so Short • Tags: Greece, Greek Literature, Ελλάδα, Ελληνική Λογοτεχνία, Λογοτεχνία, Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, Ταξίδι, Φωτογραφία, Literature, Long Reads, Photography, Urban travel tales, Writing

Οι Κόρες της Κέας και η Αγία Ειρήνη

October 1, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

For English:  http://to.ly/pjzN Ο στόχος του blog μου: Να προβάλλω τα ευεργετήματα που προκύπτουν όταν αγκαλιάζουμε την Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά και την Οικολογία. Οι αναρτήσεις Ελληνικά και Αγγλικά γίνονται κατόπιν ενδελεχούς επιμέλειας και έρευνας, με δικές μου φωτογραφίες. Απολαύστε το ταξίδι!   Εμπνέομαι από τη προσέγγιση της ταξιδιώτισσας, όχι της τουρίστριας και από την  επιθυμία να μοιραστώ αυτήν την οπτική για να κάνουμε τον κόσμο πιο όμορφο, ένα σπίτι όπου ο καθένας θα βρίσκει το χώρο όπου θα εκφράζει ενεργητικά την […]

Categories: Greek islands, Ταξιδιωτικά μου Ημερολόγια • Tags: Αρχαιολογία Μεσόγειος, Δημόσιοι χώροι, Ελλάδα, Ελληνικά νησιά, Κυκλάδες, Κέα, Κέα/Τζιά, Μουσεία Ελλάδα, Πολιτιστική κληρονομιά, Πολιτισμός, Long Reads, Photography, Travel, Urban travel tales

In the town I was born: Athens

September 24, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

For Greek: http://to.ly/pi65 Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey! 2013 © Copyright. All rights reserved; initial post 20 October 2013 – revised March 2018 incident number 1: The clash, the stone-throwing, the tear gas started at 10:30 in the evening, on Saturday 21st September 2013. The location is not far from the centre of Athens, regardless of whether we measure from the […]

Categories: Athens for your eyes only • Tags: Athens Greece, City, Culture, Greece, journalism, Life, Long Reads, Public spaces, Urban metaphors, Urban travel tales, Writing

Places that console me: Puglia, Apulia

September 21, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

For Greek http://to.ly/p90L Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey!                                                                                       2013 © Copyright. All rights reserved  In my travels of the […]

Categories: My Travel Journals • Tags: Art, City, Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, Culture, Design, Europe, Italy, Life, Public spaces, Travel, Urban travel tales, Writing

The Return with an Editorial and ‘love/eros for things’

September 9, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

For Greek http://to.ly/oQHD Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey! 2013 © Copyright. All rights reserved  At some point I caught myself saying ‘my blog is my life’ and I got scared. Wherever I went, whatever I saw I was thinking aloud ‘this can be a post in my blog’. I would not let go of my camera. I kept mental notes […]

Categories: My Travel Journals, Reflections on love and other arts • Tags: Culture, Long Reads, Love, Photography, Urban metaphors, Urban travel tales, Writing

a bench with a view

March 26, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

This blog post is an experiment in poetic prose matched with photos from the island of Kea or Tzia that have inspired it. It has been reviewed by the highly acclaimed Exile Room, an art space and very active non-profit organisation operating at the centre of Athens “obsessed” with promoting and educating on the art and practice of documentaries. The last years in the Exile Room they show regularly distinctive documentaries from the international scene; they also organise seminars and host the most hospitable […]

Categories: Greek islands, My Travel Journals, Poetic prose, Reflections on love and other arts • Tags: Art, Cultural travel, Culture, Gardens, Greece, Greek islands, Kea island, Life, Love, Nature, Photography, Poetic prose, Public spaces, Travel, Writing

Η Αθήνα φιλοξενεί “Πριγκίπισσες” της Μεσογείου στο Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης

March 15, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

For English http://to.ly/kvJs Ο στόχος του blog μου: Να προβάλλω τα ευεργετήματα που προκύπτουν όταν αγκαλιάζουμε την Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά και την Οικολογία. Οι αναρτήσεις Ελληνικά και Αγγλικά γίνονται κατόπιν ενδελεχούς επιμέλειας και έρευνας, με δικές μου φωτογραφίες. Απολαύστε το ταξίδι!   Εμπνέομαι από τη προσέγγιση της ταξιδιώτισσας, όχι της τουρίστριας και από την  επιθυμία να μοιραστώ αυτήν την οπτική για να κάνουμε τον κόσμο πιο όμορφο, ένα σπίτι όπου ο καθένας θα βρίσκει το χώρο όπου θα εκφράζει ενεργητικά την […]

Categories: Αθήνα για τα μάτια σου μόνο • Tags: Art, Athens Greece, Cultural travel, Greece, πόλη, Αρχαιολογία Μεσόγειος, Αθήνα, Δημόσιοι χώροι, Ελλάδα, Μουσεία Ελλάδα, Πολιτιστική κληρονομιά, Πολιτισμός, Long Reads, Urban travel tales

Athens hosts ‘Princesses’ of Mediterranean at the Museum of Cycladic Art

March 15, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

For GREEK http://to.ly/kvJe Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey! 2012 © Copyright. All rights reserved  At the Museum of Cycladic Art  Τhe exhibition ” ‘Princesses’ of Mediterranean in the dawn of History” took place in Athens, the Museum of Cycladic Art from 13 December 2012 until 8 May 2013 bringing together personal objects that were found buried in graves.  Some of these […]

Categories: Athens for your eyes only • Tags: Archaeology Greece, Archaeology Mediterranean, Art, Athens Greece, City, Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, Culture, Greece, Greek Museums, Long Reads, Public spaces, Travel, Urban travel tales, Writing

Walking the trail to the ancient Karthea, at the Greek island of Kea

March 3, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

For Greek Προς την αρχαία Καρθαία, στη νήσο Κέα Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey!            2013 © Copyright. All rights reserved As in fairy tales we stand uncertain at crossroads. As pilgrims we share stories along the way, from the writer/blogger Lisa Samloglou, 2013 The starting point is Korissia, the harbor of Kea. The Cycladic island is also known by […]

Categories: Greek islands, My Travel Journals • Tags: Archaeology Greece, Archaeology Mediterranean, Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, Cyclades, Ecology, Greece, Greek islands, Karthaia, Kea island, Kea/Tzia, Long Reads, Photography, Poles, Public spaces, Travel, Urban travel tales

a tree is blooming at the Greek island of Kea /ένα δέντρο ανθίζει στη νήσο Κέα

March 2, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

A tree is blooming at the Greek island of Kea I discovered this tree last summer, last August, in my garden, drowned in a jungle of oleander shrubs and bushes. I started clearing the ground off dried leaves, mowing twigs that sprang up stiff and leafless. And then I was surprised to reveal two trees, very close to one another that had become one, their trunks abandoned to the wildness of vegetation. They had formed a symbiotic pair, inseparable, that for years had […]

Categories: Greek islands, Απόψεις, Ταξιδιωτικά μου Ημερολόγια, My Travel Journals, Reflections on love and other arts • Tags: Cultural heritage, Culture, Ecology, Gardens urban, Greece, Greek islands, Κυκλάδες, Κέα/Τζιά, Kea island, Kea/Tzia, Life, Love, Nature, Travel, Urban travel tales, Writing

Secret London: Trafalgar Square, Fourth Plinth

February 7, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey!                                                                                2013 © Copyright. All rights reserved The Fourth Plinth, the Empty Plinth at the North West […]

Categories: My Travel Journals • Tags: Art, Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, London, Long Reads, Public spaces, Travel, Urban metaphors, Urban travel tales

The weeds spring in the city of Athens

December 11, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

For Greek click here or look under ‘Athens for your eyes only’ The weeds come out from the breakage of the asphalt, at the edges of roads and pavements, from cracks of the walls. I am walking in Athens, a solemn day of December. I look down at my boots; first day I wear them again this new winter. My socks got soaked yesterday from splashing around the brooks formed after a few hours of rain. Not in the countryside, […]

Categories: Athens for your eyes only • Tags: Athens Greece, City, Cultural travel, Photography, Travel, Urban metaphors, Urban travel tales

Girona, the gestures of a city

November 30, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey!                                                                                2012 © Copyright. All rights reserved        Night in the old city of Girona, city […]

Categories: My Travel Journals • Tags: City, Cultural travel, Long Reads, Photography, Spain, Travel, Urban metaphors, Urban travel tales

I have been awarded a Liebster Blog Award!

November 24, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

And as I am trying to keep my travel spirit while in Athens, photographing street art amid demonstrations and strikes, I get the Liebster Award from the wonderful http://www.2guystrippin.com/ It is such a great surprise! Thanks guys! It is a recognition and a honor for my first few months of blogging. The Liebster Award is awarded to up and coming bloggers. I checked the details and I had a slight panic! lol Now I am working on it…let you know […]

Categories: Awards • Tags: Liebster Blog Award, Travel

If you listen to the silences of Athens….

November 19, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey! 2012 © Copyright. All rights reserved  Constitution square, Athens, November 2012   It is Sunday, around 4 o’ clock in the afternoon. It looks empty at the center of the city. It will start buzzing later when a lively crowd of theater-goes will arrive to take a drink, to buy or collect their tickets. Colorful […]

Categories: Athens for your eyes only • Tags: Athens Greece, City, Europe, Long Reads, Photography, Travel, Writing

Photographing again in Athens

November 4, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey!                                                                               2012 © Copyright. All rights reserved 4 November 2012 The last years we have been hearing […]

Categories: Athens for your eyes only, My Travel Journals • Tags: Art, Athens Greece, City, Cultural heritage, Culture, Greece, Ελλάδα, Photography, Public spaces, Solo traveling, Travel, Urban travel tales

Κάντε έναν περίπατο στην άγνωστη Βυζαντινή Κέα

November 3, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

For English please click here  Ο στόχος του blog μου: Να προβάλλω τα ευεργετήματα που προκύπτουν όταν αγκαλιάζουμε την Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά και την Οικολογία. Οι αναρτήσεις Ελληνικά και Αγγλικά γίνονται κατόπιν ενδελεχούς επιμέλειας και έρευνας, με δικές μου φωτογραφίες. Απολαύστε το ταξίδι!   Εμπνέομαι από τη προσέγγιση της ταξιδιώτισσας, όχι της τουρίστριας και από την  επιθυμία να μοιραστώ αυτήν την οπτική για να κάνουμε τον κόσμο πιο όμορφο, ένα σπίτι όπου ο καθένας θα βρίσκει το χώρο όπου θα εκφράζει […]

Categories: Greek islands, Ταξιδιωτικά μου Ημερολόγια • Tags: Ελλάδα, Ελληνικά νησιά, Κυκλάδες, Κέα, Κέα/Τζιά, Πολιτιστική κληρονομιά, Πολιτισμός, Ταξίδι, Τζιά/Κέα, Φωτογραφία

Take a walk in the unseen side of the Greek island of Kea, from the Byzantine times

November 3, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

To read the post in Greek please click here  Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey!  Updated October 10, 2017 2012 © Copyright. All rights reserved  Many groups are created in Greece lately – I refer to the 2012 when this post was first uploaded – with the widespread realisation that the crisis has not only been installed here, but it is […]

Categories: Greek islands • Tags: Art, Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, Culture, Greece, Kea island, Kea/Tzia, Photography, Travel

My Hotel, My Castle in Catalonia / Mi Hotel, Mi Castillo en Cataluña

October 14, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

(For Greek click here, or look under: Greek, Ταξιδιωτική Αφήγηση ) I have a special liking for hotels. Although they are familiar ground, it is not common to find a hotel whose memory will stay with me and be cherished after I pack my suitcases and leave. Comfortable and cozy is the prerequisite. But to be remembered, to make me want to go back, much more is required. I was initially attracted by the name : Hotel del Teatre. It […]

Categories: My Travel Journals, Stories not so Short • Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, Culture, Europe, Solo traveling, Spain, Travel, Urban travel tales

Venice: time and water, a loving and dangerous liaison

October 7, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

(For Greek click here, or look under Greek: Ταξιδιωτική Αφήγηση, ‘Βενετία: χρόνος και νερό, ένας τρυφερός και επικίνδυνος δεσμός’) Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey!  In my dream last night I saw a piece of colorful Murano glass. The five days I spent in Venice, I was looking for a metaphor to describe, to represent this  place for the needs of […]

Categories: My Travel Journals, Reflections on love and other arts, Stories not so Short • Tags: Art, City, Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, Culture, Europe, Gardens, Italy, Long Reads, Nature, Photography, Public spaces, Travel, Urban metaphors, Urban travel tales, Writing

Urban Gardens in Milan

September 16, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

(For Greek click here, or look under Greek: Ταξιδιωτική Αφήγηση ‘Αστικοί Κήποι στο Μιλάνο’) Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey!  It is impossible to visit Milan without noticing and photographing the urban gardens. They are hidden in courtyards which are imprisoned behind iron gates or in atriums past the front entrance of buildings of various architectural periods. Looking up at the […]

Categories: My Travel Journals • Tags: Cultural travel, Culture, Design, Europe, Gardens urban, Italy, journalism, Life, Long Reads, Nature, Photography, Travel, Urban travel tales

To the Lighthouse of Saint Nicolas/ Προς το Φάρο του Άη Νικόλα

August 24, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

For Greek click here or look under Ταξιδιωτικά μου ημερολόγια ‘Προς το Φάρο Αγίου Νικολάου Κέας’  Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey! 2012 © Copyright. All rights reserved – revised September 2018 Lighthouses are terrifying as they stand isolated on rocks to the mercy of weather, encircled by the sea. From their solitary presence, austere and minimal usually, they blink at […]

Categories: Greek islands • Tags: Film Locations in Greece, Greek beacons, το στενό του Λάμπρου Κατσώνη, Βουρκάρι, Ελληνικοί φάροι, Κόκκα, Κέα/Τζιά, Κέα/Τζιά βιομηχανικές ζώνες 19ου αιώνα, Ο φάρος του Αγίου Νικολάου, Ο Φάρος της Κέας, Τζιά/Κέα, Kea/Tzia, Saint Nicolas lighthouse, Tzia/Kea, Vourkari

The Daughters of Kea and Ayia Irini/ Οι Κόρες της Κέας και η Αγία Ειρήνη

August 8, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

for Greek http://goo.gl/P3iIiN Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey!                                      This post is a revision of the initial, first published on 8 August 2012 2012 © Copyright. All rights reserved   I am visiting the Archaeological Museum at Ioulida, the capital of the Cycladic island of Kea/Tzia, […]

Categories: Greek islands, My Travel Journals • Tags: Archaeology Greece, Archaeology Mediterranean, Art, Cultural travel, Cyclades, Greece, Greek islands, Greek Museums, Kea island, Kea/Tzia, Long Reads, Photography, Urban travel tales

Mad love goes to the beach / Ο τρελός έρωτας πάει στην παραλία

July 10, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

(for the Greek text please see after the photos/ παρακαλώ αναζητήστε το Ελληνικό κείμενο μετά τις φωτογραφίες)   I grew up in the city. Longer stays in the countryside were scheduled for school holidays. Sunday excursions to the outskirts of Athens informed my school compositions with the title ‘ A Sunday with my family’, a topic that throughout elementary school our teachers felt compelled to ask us to write about. The best among them were to be read out  in […]

Categories: Ταξιδιωτικά μου Ημερολόγια, My Travel Journals, Poetic prose, Reflections on love and other arts • Tags: Art, Culture, Δημόσιοι χώροι, Ελλάδα, Λογοτεχνία, Ταξίδι, Φωτογραφία, Literature, Long Reads, Love, Nature, Photography, Poetic prose, Public spaces, Travel, Urban metaphors, Urban travel tales

Προς την αρχαία Καρθαία, στη νήσο Κέα

July 2, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

for English Walking the trail to the ancient Karthea, at the Greek island of Kea Promoting the benefits from the embracing of Cultural Heritage & Ecology, these posts feature in En & Gr thoroughly edited and researched, illustrated by my photos. Enjoy the journey!                       2013 © Copyright. All rights reserved   Όπως στα παραμύθια στεκόμαστε αβέβαιοι σε σταυροδρόμια. Σαν τους προσκυνητές ανταλλάσσουμε ιστορίες στο δρόμο.Λίζα Σαμλόγλου, συγγραφέας/blogger Ξεκινάμε 9:30 το πρωί από την Κορησσία, […]

Categories: Ταξιδιωτικά μου Ημερολόγια • Tags: Archaeology Mediterranean, Greece, Αρχαιολογία Μεσόγειος, Ελλάδα, Ελληνικά νησιά, Κυκλάδες, Κέα, Κέα/Τζιά, Καρθαία, Οικολογία, Ταξίδι, Τζιά/Κέα, Φωτογραφία, Long Reads, memory, Travel, Urban travel tales

So is the skin / Έτσι είναι το δέρμα

May 28, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

They have carried it up the stairs, six floors.  When I opened the door their faces were dripping with sweat. I offered them water. One of the two men was robust, handsome. He asked me where to place it. I showed him. He lifted up the couch again, taking most of the weight, leading the other, his colleague, patiently, with his voice. “Leave it on me, Sotiris, it’s okay, I get it.” I would have thought that he was the […]

Categories: Athens for your eyes only, Poetic prose, Reflections on love and other arts • Tags: Athens Greece, City, Culture, Greek Literature, Αθήνα, Ελληνική Λογοτεχνία, Η Πόλη με τους εργένηδες, Λογοτεχνία, Life, Literature, Love, Urban metaphors, Urban travel tales, Writing

New York windows

May 12, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

New York, December 2011: The iron staircases of New York would not have been the same without the narrow-long windows, which also serve as emergency exits. And the windows would not have been the same if the windowpanes were not so dirty that they force your gaze to look high up and far. These trivial details make the tales for a particular city…                                     […]

Categories: My Travel Journals • Tags: City, Culture, New York, Photography, Solo traveling, Travel, Urban travel tales

“Μπαμπά μην Ξαναπεθάνεις Παρασκευή…” από τη Τζιά, άλλως Κέα

March 5, 2017 by Lisa Samloglou

Ο στόχος του blog μου: Να προβάλλω τα ευεργετήματα που προκύπτουν όταν αγκαλιάζουμε την Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά και την Οικολογία. Οι αναρτήσεις Ελληνικά και Αγγλικά γίνονται κατόπιν ενδελεχούς επιμέλειας και έρευνας, με δικές μου φωτογραφίες. Απολαύστε το ταξίδι!   Εμπνέομαι από τη προσέγγιση της ταξιδιώτισσας, όχι της τουρίστριας και από την  επιθυμία να μοιραστώ αυτήν την οπτική για να κάνουμε τον κόσμο πιο όμορφο, ένα σπίτι όπου ο καθένας θα βρίσκει το χώρο όπου θα εκφράζει ενεργητικά την αγάπη του και […]

Categories: Απόψεις, Ταξιδιωτικά μου Ημερολόγια • Tags: Art, Greece, Greek islands, Δημοσιογραφία, Ελλάδα, Ελληνικά νησιά, Θέατρο, Κυκλάδες, Κέα, Τέχνη, Τζιά/Κέα, journalism

On Reading a Painting

January 31, 2017 by Lisa Samloglou

What is your first impression when you look at an image? The photo-card of a painting for example? I had to chose among 10 cards. Picking up my favorite I read at the back : ‘Melanie and Me Swimming’ by Michael Andrews, from Tate. It was the only information available before writing the short text below: It is bloody cold – what an idea to swim tonight! He was so enthusiastic I could not spoil it.  Peter is like that. […]

Categories: Ταξιδιωτικά μου Ημερολόγια, My Travel Journals • Tags: Art, Cultural travel, Culture, Literature, Love, Urban travel tales, Writing