Lisa Samloglou

urbantraveltales, storytelling is a guaranty of sanity

Let’s play storytelling

April 6, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

3 X Awarded Blog on Cultural Travel since May 2012 for the promotion of Cultural Heritage & Ecology. Authentic posts in En/Gr thoroughly edited and researched, with my photos. A traveller’s approach inspired by my visionÂ Â to see the world more beautiful, more friendly, safer. A home where everyone may find the space for active love and purposeful creativity. 2013 © Copyright. All rightsÂ reserved Hypnotised by the aroma of a thousand lemon trees, I sleepwalk in this first visited […]

Categories: Athens for your eyes only, Reflections on love and other arts • Tags: Art, Culture, Gardens urban, Greece, Life, Poetic prose, Travel, Urban travel tales, Writing

a bench with a view

March 26, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

3 X Awarded Blog on Cultural Travel since May 2012 for the promotion of Cultural Heritage & Ecology. Authentic posts in En/Gr thoroughly edited and researched, with my photos. A traveller’s approach inspired by my vision to see the world a better place, beautiful, open, friendly, safer. A home where everyone may find the space for active love and purposeful creativity. 2013 © Copyright. All rights reserved This blog post is an experiment in poetic prose to go with photos from […]

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

urban travel tales, Athens National Garden

Where have they gone the monkeys Mom?

March 21, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

3 X Awarded Blog on Cultural Travel since May 2012 for the promotion of Cultural Heritage & Ecology. Authentic posts in En/Gr thoroughly edited and researched, with my photos. A traveller’s approach inspired by my visionÂ Â to see the world more beautiful, more friendly, safer. A home where everyone may find the space for active love and purposeful creativity. 2013 © Copyright. All rights reserved It is Sunday, a warm day of 18 C/65 F, when in London is […]

Categories: Athens for your eyes only, My Travel Journals • Tags: Athens Greece, Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, Culture, Gardens, Greece, Public spaces, Travel, Urban travel tales

Από την Marsiliana d’Albegna, Νεκρόπολη Banditella,

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

March 15, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

3Χ βραβευμένο Blog από το Μάιο 2012 για την προώθηση της Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς & της Οικολογίας. Οι φωτογραφίες με τις αντίστοιχες λεζάντες στο άρθρο μου χάρη στην ευγενή παραχώριση του Μουσείου Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης. Τους ευχαριστώ πολύ! 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 τάφους. Κάποια από αυτά ταξίδεψαν από την Κύπρο, την Νότια Ιταλία, την Ετρουρία, για να συναντήσουν σύγχρονα τους από τον Ελλαδικό χώρο: […]

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

urban travel tales,Tomb at Toumba Building, Lefkandi

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

March 15, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

All photos with respective captions are Courtesy of the Museum of Cycladic Art. Thank you! See the same post in Greek Η Αθήνα φιλοξενεί “Πριγκίπισσες” της Μεσογείου στο Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης 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 treasures traveled […]

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

urbantraveltales,Karthea, Kea/Tzia, Greece, Karthaia, europea-nostra-award-2017

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 Τhe blog urban travel tales since its start in May 2012 aims at reminding the wealth of Cultural Heritage and the urgent need to take action for the protection of the environment. The blog has been awarded 3 times by blogger groups. The posts uploaded are my original texts that appear here for the first time, thoroughly researched, edited or experienced. My approach is that of a traveler’s, not a tourist’s. The […]

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

urban travel tales, spring at Greek island of Kea

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

March 2, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

3 X Awarded Blog on Cultural Travel since May 2012 for the promotion of Cultural Heritage & Ecology. Authentic posts in En/Gr thoroughly edited and researched, with my photos. A traveller’s approach inspired by my vision to see the world a better place, beautiful, open, friendly, safer. A home where everyone may find the space for active love and purposeful creativity. 2013 © Copyright. All rights reserved – revised 2019 A tree is blooming at the Greek island of Kea Last August, […]

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

urbantraveltales, spring at Greek island, Kea

Walking by the sea after a long winter…

February 25, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

3 X Awarded Blog on Cultural Travel since May 2012 for the promotion of Cultural Heritage & Ecology. Authentic posts in En/Gr thoroughly edited and researched, with my photos. A traveller’s approach inspired by my visionÂ Â to see the world more beautiful, more friendly, safer. A home where everyone may find the space for active love and purposeful creativity. 2013 © Copyright. All rightsÂ reserved Usually the words come first. Today, looking at the photos from my first walk by the […]

Categories: Reflections on love and other arts • Tags: Cultural travel, Greek islands, Kea island, Kea/Tzia, Nature, Photography, Public spaces, Travel, Urban travel tales, Writing

urban travel tales, love is fond of the minimal

Love/Eros is in fond of the minimal, it usually starts with a glimpse

February 14, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

3 X Awarded Blog on Cultural Travel since May 2012 for the promotion of Cultural Heritage & Ecology. Authentic posts in En/Gr thoroughly edited and researched, with my photos. A traveller’s approach inspired by my visionÂ Â to see the world more beautiful, more friendly, safer. A home where everyone may find the space for active love and purposeful creativity. 2018 © Copyright. All rightsÂ reserved A perfect love, experience or fantasy, is part of everyone’s most intimate album; indeed, we […]

Categories: Reflections on love and other arts • Tags: Art, Cultural travel, Culture, Η Πόλη με τους εργένηδες, Love, Photography, Travel, Urban metaphors, 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