Urban travel tales

Lost in interpretation

February 14, 2017 by Lisa Samloglou

initial post 14 February 2017 – revised March 2018 I kept walking along the riverside from Kingston-upon-Thames to Richmond, in Surrey   from mid-September 2015 to the early spring of 2017. I have been patiently reconnecting the dots that would lead me further ahead; though at that time I just kept walking, immersed in the shadows and in poetic imagery, enveloped in silence… Winter has swept off relentlessly the striking green, leaving dark branches where before was foliage. Up on the trees a second trail unfolds, soggy crossroads leading to […]

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

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. Μάς είπε πως την εποχή που έμενε στην Ελλάδα και έγραφε το ‘The Name’ (1982) / Τα Ονόματα (Εστία,1996) αντικρύζοντας στην Κρήτη την αρχαία ελληνική γραφή είδε «τα σχήματα των γραμμάτων να ταιριάζουν με τη λέξη». Μίλησε για μια σχεδόν μυστικιστική […]

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 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 of London and Bavaria before I put my foot on it. I haven’t been to Tokyo yet. The delicate gifts I have received from my father’s Japanese colleagues when I was […]

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 http://goo.gl/M1CoHL 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 δεν έχω πάει ακόμη, αλλά τα λεπτεπίλεπτα δωράκια που μου έφερναν οι  Γιαπωνέζοι συνεργάτες του πατέρα μου, κι ο ίδιος, από το μοναδικό του ταξίδι εκεί, μου ζωγράφισαν το πρόσωπο της Ιαπωνίας. […]

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 Επισκέπτομαι το Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο της Κέας μια δροσερή μέρα του Ιουλίου. Το αεράκι μπαίνει από τα ανοιχτά παράθυρα και  αναδεύει σκιές που κολυμπούν στο γαλάζιο των τοίχων, ενώ ένα παραθυρόφυλλο κτυπάει με σταθερό ρυθμό. Είμαι η μοναδική επισκέπτρια, εκτός από ένα νεαρό που περνάει σιωπηλά, και εξαφανίζεται. Είτε στέκουν είτε χορεύουν οι Κόρες της Κέας είναι στητές γυναικείες φιγούρες. Οι αντανακλάσεις τους στις βιτρίνες μοιάζουν μακρύτερες, καθώς οι φούστες τους ακουμπάνε στο έδαφος και επιπλέον φορούν περικόρμια. Κάποιες φέρουν […]

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 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 old centre Omonoia, or the new, Syntagma. For a city of this dimension Athens’ centre is not large. So, here I am driving up Leoforos Alexandras, in front of the Football Stadium, that houses the team of Panathinaikos. “The game […]

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 In my travels of the recent years I am visiting places, locations and communities about which I know very little. I’m one of the travelers who do not get prepared meticulously beforehand. So, I am landing at the place with a vast curiosity and little bias, I like to think. Locally I gather information, starting from the airport or the port, right from the reception point. Landing to Brindisi via Rome I find at the airport a range of […]

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 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 for the texts. I kept visiting blogs, studying how to improve my blog and spent more and more hours of the day and night on social media to conquer ‘the new […]

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 Στο Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης  από 13/12/2012 έως 8/5/2013 εκτέθηκαν ευρήματα/κτερίσματα που ανήκαν στις  ‘‘Πριγκίπισσες’  της Μεσογείου στην αυγή της Ιστορίας’. Κάποια από αυτά ταξίδεψαν από την Κύπρο, την Νότια Ιταλία, την Ετρουρία, για να συναντήσουν σύγχρονα τους από τον Ελλαδικό χώρο: Αττική, Εύβοια, Μακεδονία. Μεγάλη η προσέλευση στο καλά οργανωμένο Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης, ιδιαίτερα ζωντανό, αυτό το ανοιξιάτικο μεσημέρι του Σαββάτου. Παιδιά βγαίνουν από το μάθημα ανεμίζοντας τις ζωγραφιές τους, στο καφέ δεν βρίσκεις ελεύθερο κάθισμα. Απολαμβάνουμε 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 At the Museum of Cycladic Art  from December 13, 2012 until May 8th, 2013 the personal objects that were found buried in the graves were brought together here to constitute the exhibition ” ‘Princesses’ of Mediterranean in the dawn of History”. Some of them have traveled from Cyprus, Southern Italy, Etruria to meet their synchronous from Greece: Attica, Euboea, Macedonia. The turnout is big at the well-organized Museum of Cycladic Art. This spring day, a Saturday, it is […]

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 As in fairy tales we stand uncertain at crossroads. As pilgrims we share stories along the way.  The starting point is Korissia, the harbor of Kea. The Cycladic island is also known by its other name Tzia. We drive to Kato Mera (Katomeria) following the road map. We stop at the parking lot to eat omelettes and drink coffee.  While our breakfast is prepared we walk to the stone shed hidden behind some houses of the village. […]

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: Reflections on love and other arts • Tags: Culture, 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

The Fourth Plinth, the Empty Plinth at the North West corner of Trafalgar Square has been housing contemporary art exhibits since 1999. At ICA on The Mall, a collection of 21 commissioned maquettes by celebrated artists were displayed under the title ‘Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument’ in partnership with the Mayor of London from December 4th, 2012 to January 20th, 2013. Brought together for the first time in 13 years these commissioned artworks chosen to adorn a public space with international visibility, such as Trafalgar […]

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

Night in the old city of Girona, city of the four rivers, with the musical names of Ter, Onyar, Galligants and Guell. I sit in a bar near the Cathedral, listening to a Scottish ballad; the rough traveler’s voice belongs to a man in his early twenties. I stepped into the bar attracted by the coarse voice, the sound and the contradiction. It fits my mood, it fits the city. Girona is a small city of 100.000 people with the charm of […]

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

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 groups of women over 50, mostly, will pack the pedestrian streets and the cafés spraying vivid exclamations and perfumes. Right now it looks empty and silent compared to yesterday, same time, […]

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

4 November 2012 The last years we have been hearing that it is dangerous to walk around at the centre of Athens. Athens is my native city, as for the centre, I had always considered ‘my courtyard’, so to speak. I have started exploring my neighbourhood, Kypseli, with my friend Sofia when we were 10 or 11, walking back home from our elementary school. It would not have crossed our minds that it was not safe in the mid 60s […]

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  Πολλές ομάδες δημιουργούνται στην Ελλάδα τον τελευταίο καιρό – αναφέρομαι στο 2012 που έγινε η αρχική ανάρτηση – όσο συνειδητοποιούμε πως η κρίση έχει εγκατασταθεί και οξύνεται. Πολλοί από μας δεν θέλουμε πλέον να βιώνουμε μόνοι μας την ανασφάλεια. Ταυτόχρονα  αναζητούμε τρόπους να δράσουμε, να αντιδράσουμε, να επικοινωνήσουμε. Άνθρωποι συσπειρώνονται για να παρέμβουν σε τοπικά θέματα, να μοιραστούν πολιτιστικά ενδιαφέροντα και να δώσουν ένα χέρι βοήθειας. Οι ομάδες δημιουργούνται από παρέες που είχαν να βρεθούν […]

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  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 growing. A lot of us no longer want to experience alone our own insecurities. At the same time we are looking for ways to react, to interact and to communicate. People come together to intervene […]

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’) 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 my personal mythology. The memory of the glass imprinting hues, rather than colors, translates accurately the fluidity that is the essence of Venice; see the sky, […]

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’) 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 balconies and verandas one can see hanging gardens in suspense, ready to risk a free fall, or further up, roofs towered with green forests. I […]

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

Προς το Φάρο Αγίου Νικολάου Κέας

August 24, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

(For English click here, or look under A Travel Narrative, ‘To the Lighthouse of Saint Nicholas, at the Greek island of Kea’ )   Οι φάροι είναι τρομακτικοί καθώς στέκουν απομονωμένοι πάνω σε βράχους, αφημένοι στους καιρούς, κυκλωμένοι από τη θάλασσα. Αναβοσβήνουν στέλνοντας σήματα της μοναχικής παρουσίας τους μες στο σκοτάδι, αποπνέοντας παρηγοριά κι ενθάρρυνση, ιδιαίτερα γι’ αυτούς που ταξιδεύουν σε αβέβαια νερά επί μακρόν. Οι φάροι σηματοδοτούν ένα τέλος, αλλά εμπνέουν και φρέσκιες ενάρξεις. Κοιτάζω το φάρο του Αγίου […]

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

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’  Lighthouses are terrifying as they stand isolated on rocks, left to the weather, encircled by the sea. Their blinking signals solitary presences and emits a feeling of comfort and reassurance. Lighthouses mark endings, but inspire fresh beginnings, too. I am looking at the lighthouse of Agios Nikolaos, at the fingertip of the peninsula of Kokka which borders the gulf of Vourkari, one of the […]

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 I am visiting the Archaeological Museum at Ioulida, the capital of the Cycladic island of Kea/Tzia, on a cool day of July. The breeze enters from the open windows and agitates shadows swimming against the light blue of the walls under the recurring drum from a shutter banging against a wall. I am the only visitor with the exception of a young man who passes silently as a ghost, and disappears. Standing or dancing the Daughters of Kea are female […]

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 Όπως στα παραμύθια στεκόμαστε αβέβαιοι σε σταυροδρόμια. Σαν τους προσκυνητές ανταλλάσσουμε ιστορίες στο δρόμο. Ξεκινάμε 9:30 το πρωί από την Κορησσία, το λιμάνι της Κέας. Το Κυκλαδίτικο νησί είναι γνωστό και ως Τζιά. Ακολουθούμε το δρόμο ως την Κάτω Μερά (Κατωμεριά) και παρκάρουμε στη πλάτωμα  για να πιούμε καφέ και να φάμε ομελέττα. Μέχρι να ετοιμαστεί το πρωινό μας πάμε ως το πέτρινο υπόστεγο κρυμμένο πίσω από την […]

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 […]

Categories: Απόψεις, 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

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 γρήγορο ρυθμό, τις πολλαπλές κωμικές ανατροπές, τους έξυπνους διαλόγους, τις καίριες ατάκες και το γλυκόπικρο χιούμορ. Εργαλεία ιδανικά για να διακωμωδήσουν σχέσεις και καταστάσεις που μας είναι οικείες, αν […]

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

On Reading a Painting in 5 minutes – unedited I wrote this text as an exercise on first impression looking at the photo-card of a painting I have been given to chose among 10 other cards. The only info known to me was the title at the back of the card, ‘Melanie and Me Swimming’ by Michael Andrews, from Tate.    http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/andrews-melanie-and-me-swimming-t02334 After looking carefully at the painting, imagine or even write your one text. Then you may read my text. […]

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

Save the spirit of the 31st Athens Classic Marathon

November 10, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

31st Athens Classic Marathon dedicated to the memory of Grigoris Lamprakis November 10, 2013 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 saw a runner in bare foot and a girl crying because she had to give up shortly before the termination at the Kallimarmaron Stadium. I saw tears […]

Categories: Athens for your eyes only • Tags: Athens Greece, Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, Culture, Greece, Ελλάδα, journalism, Life, Photography, Public spaces, Travel, Urban metaphors, Urban travel tales

Απολαυστικές στάσεις στη Χώρα, άλλως Ιουλίδα, της Κυκλαδίτικης Κέας

October 21, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

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/ αρχική ανάρτηση 21 Οκτωβρίου 2013 – ανανεωμένη Μάρτιο 2018 Δεν υπάρχει περίπτωση να πάω στη Τζιά ή Κέα και να μην ανέβω στην Ιουλίδα άλλως Χώρα του Κυκλαδίτικου νησιού σε μια ώρα απόσταση από το Λαύριο. Παλαιότερα περνούσα από την ταβέρνα του Ρολάνδο. Ο Ρολάνδος ήρθε στη Τζιά από την Κέρκυρα όπου διατηρούσε ψαροταβέρνα στις Μπενίτσες και σήμερα τη δουλεύουν τα παιδιά του. Η γυναίκα του η Χρυσούλα και αχώριστη σύντροφος του είναι Τζιώτισσα. […]

Categories: Greek islands, Ταξιδιωτικά μου Ημερολόγια • Tags: Greece, Greek islands, Αρχαιολογία Μεσόγειος, Ελλάδα, Ελληνικά νησιά, Κυκλάδες, Κέα/Τζιά, Μουσεία Ελλάδα, Πολιτιστική κληρονομιά, Ταξίδι, Τζιά/Κέα, Φωτογραφία, Urban travel tales

Rewarding stops at Chora or Ioulida of the Cycladic island of Kea

October 20, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

Ιnitial post 20 October 2013 – revised March 2018 Each time Ι am at the island of Kea or Tzia I would not miss a visit up to Ioulida, the capital of the Cycladic island, also known as Chora. Some time past I used to stop at Rolando’s. Rolando arrived to Kea from Corfu. His fish tavern at Benitses was passed over to his children so that he would settle with his wife Chryssoula to her native island, Tzia. They work side by […]

Categories: Greek islands, Αθήνα για τα μάτια σου μόνο, Ταξιδιωτικά μου Ημερολόγια, My Travel Journals • Tags: Archaeology Greece, Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, Culture, Greece, Greek islands, Greek Museums, Kea island, Kea/Tzia, Photography, Solo traveling, Travel, Urban travel tales