Cultural heritage | Urban travel tales

Discovering sweet delights in Athens, traditional & healthy

October 20, 2018 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 more beautiful, more friendly, safer. A home where everyone may find the space for active love and purposeful creativity. 2018 © Copyright. All rights reserved Since 1930 they make cheese pies, “oriental sweets” like galaktoboureko & kantaifi in different versions, […]

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

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Σαββόπουλος, Μια βραδιά στο Ηρώδειο

September 27, 2018 by Lisa Samloglou

3Χ βραβευμένο Blog από το Μάιο 2012 για την προώθηση της Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς & της Οικολογίας. Οι αναρτήσεις είναι πρωτοεμφανιζόμενα κείμενα μου, αποτέλεσμα ενδελεχούς έρευνας και επιμέλειας, συνοδευόμενα από τις φωτογραφίες μου. Η προσέγγιση της ταξιδιώτισσας εμπνέεται από το όραμα να δω τον κόσμο πιο όμορφο, πιο φιλικό και ασφαλή. Ένα σπίτι όπου ο καθένας θα μπορεί να βρει το χώρο για να εκφράζει ενεργητικά την αγάπη του και τη στοχευμένη του δημιουργικότητα. 2018 © Copyright. All rights reserved Μια βραδυά […]

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

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

September 26, 2018 by Lisa Samloglou

3X Awarded Blog on Cultural Travel since May 2012 focused on Cultural Heritage & Ecology. Here you find authentic posts in En/Gr thoroughly edited and researched with my photos. They host a traveller’s approach and the vision for a safer world, a home where everyone may find the space to experience active love, to explore purposeful creativity. Miriam Caskey, Stories from the Archaeological Excavations at the site of Ayia Irini 1960-1980: the excavation, the island, the people 2018 © Copyright. All […]

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

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

September 24, 2018 by Lisa Samloglou

3Χ βραβευμένο Blog από το Μάιο 2012 για την προώθηση της Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς & της Οικολογίας. Οι αναρτήσεις είναι πρωτοεμφανιζόμενα κείμενα μου, αποτέλεσμα ενδελεχούς έρευνας και επιμέλειας, συνοδευόμενα από τις φωτογραφίες μου. Η προσέγγιση της ταξιδιώτισσας εμπνέεται από το όραμα να δω τον κόσμο πιο όμορφο, πιο φιλικό και ασφαλή. Ένα σπίτι όπου ο καθένας θα μπορεί να βρει το χώρο για να εκφράζει ενεργητικά την αγάπη του και τη στοχευμένη του δημιουργικότητα. Miriam Caskey, Μικρές Ιστορίες από τις Αρχαιολογικές Ανασκαφές […]

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

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Richmond, sunset, winter 2017, Thames, river

Lost in interpretation

February 14, 2017 by Lisa Samloglou

3 X Awarded Blog on Cultural Travel since May 2012 focused on Cultural Heritage & Ecology. Here you find authentic posts in En/Gr thoroughly edited and researched with my photos. They host a traveller’s approach and the vision for a safer world, a home where everyone may find the space to experience active love, to honour respectful boundaries, to explore purposeful creativity. 2017 © Copyright. All rights reserved; first posted: 14 February 2017 – revised: 28 November 2018 I kept […]

Categories: My Travel Journals, Poetic prose, Reflections on love and other arts, Stories not so Short • Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural travel, Love, Nature, Poetic prose, Richmond-upon-Thames, Solo traveling, United Kingdom

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Greek sea, Greek islands, urbantraveltales, travel, Greece

τα Αρχαία Ελληνικά στέρεα πατήματα στα μονοπάτια που θα διαβαίνουμε

June 5, 2016 by Lisa Samloglou

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 3 X Awarded Blog on Cultural Travel since May 2012 focused on Cultural Heritage & Ecology. Here you find authentic posts in En/Gr thoroughly edited and researched with my photos. They host a traveller’s approach and the vision for a safer world, a home where everyone may find the space to experience active love, to explore purposeful creativity. 2013 © Copyright. All rights reserved On the wall there was a map marked with the places I longed […]

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

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urban travel tales, Athens Classic Marathon

Save the spirit of the 31st Athens Classic Marathon

November 10, 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 31st Athens Classic Marathon – November 10, 2013 dedicated to the memory of Grigoris Lamprakis […]

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

view of houses at Chora Kea Tzia Ioulida Greece

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

October 20, 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; initial post 20 October 2013 – revised March 2018 There is no way to […]

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