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
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! -initial post June 2015, revised August 2018 Don DeLillo, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank/London, 4 June 2015 Χθες βράδυ, 4 Ιουνίου 2016, στο κατάμεστο Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, στο Λονδίνο, ο Don DeLillo, ένας γίγαντας της λογοτεχνίας, “a giant of literature” όπως τον σύστησε δικαίως ο παρουσιαστής, μάς αφηγήθηκε πολλές ιστορίες με την ήσυχη βαθιά φωνή του. […]
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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
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 […]
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for English http://goo.gl/M1CoHL 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 Στον τοίχο ένας χάρτης σημαδεμένος με τόπους όπου ήθελα να πάω. Εφηβεία. Τότε δεν ταξιδεύαμε με το διαδίκτυο. Συγγενείς ξενιτεμένοι έρχονταν από τοπία τόσο διαφορετικά όσο η Νέα Υόρκη και το Σουδάν. Ονειρεύτηκα το Λονδίνο και τη Βαυαρία προτού πατήσω το πόδι μου εκεί. Στο Τόκυο […]
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For English: http://to.ly/pjzN 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 : αναθεωρημένο 2014, αρχική ανάρτηση 8 Αυγούστου […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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For English http://to.ly/kvJs 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 Στο Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης Στην έκθεση ‘‘Πριγκίπισσες’ της Μεσογείου στην αυγή της Ιστορίας’ από 13 Δεκεμβρίου 2012 έως 8 Μαίου 2013 εκτέθηκαν ευρήματα/κτερίσματα που βρέθηκαν σε […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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For English 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! 2012 © Copyright. All rights reserved Πολλές ομάδες δημιουργούνται στην Ελλάδα τον τελευταίο καιρό […]
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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 […]
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(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 […]
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(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 […]
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(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 […]
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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 August 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
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 one first published August 8, 2012 […]
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(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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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… […]
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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 Στο Πνευματικό Κέντρο Κέας Στυλιανός Ρέστης η αίθουσα διαμορφώθηκε σε θέατρο με αυλαία για να ανέβει το θεατρικό έργο “Μπαμπά μην Ξαναπεθάνεις Παρασκευή…” των Αλέξανδρου Ρήγα και Δημήτρη Αποστόλου. Η θεατρική ομάδα Κέας και ο σκηνοθέτης Δημήτρης Μάνεσης επέλεξαν αυτή τη μαύρη κωμωδία για τα στοιχεία που απολαύσαμε στην παράσταση: το […]
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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. […]
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31st Athens Classic Marathon – November 10, 2013 dedicated to the memory of Grigoris Lamprakis 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! The city of Athens celebrates today. More than 30.000 runners participate. The community responds, greets the runners warmly, cheers them with bravos and applause. The sun is warm, the sky is blue. I saw runners praying to their gods. I […]
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To read this post in English please click here.⬇https://urbantraveltales.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/rewarding-stops-at-chora-or-ioulida-of-the-cycladic-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! αρχική ανάρτηση 21 Οκτωβρίου 2013 – ανανεωμένη Μάρτιο 2018 2013 © Copyright. All rights reserved Δεν υπάρχει περίπτωση να πάω στη Τζιά ή Κέα και να μην επισκεφθώ την Ιουλίδα άλλως Χώρα του Κυκλαδίτικου νησιού. Εδώ δεσπόζει το νεοκλασικό κτήριο του Δημαρχείου κτισμένο το […]
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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 There is no way to visit the island of Kea, just an hour boat travel from the port of Lavrio, and miss a drive up to Ioulida or Chora, the capital. The neoclassical building of the Town Hall dominates the […]
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