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view of houses at Chora Kea Tzia Ioulida Greece

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

October 21, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

for Greek http://goo.gl/8qGyCW There is no way I visit Ioulida, the capital of the Cycladic island of Kea, known also as Tzia, without passing from ‘Rolando’ to taste his food and wine. Rolando came to Kea from Corfu; he left his tavern in Benitses to his children and followed his wife Chryssoula to her native island. They work side by side from spring to winter. Rolando brings to Kea a cosmopolitan air sustained by a smiling face and a warm handshake. […]

Categories: My Travel Journals • Tags: Archaeology Greece, Cultural travel, Culture, Greece, Greek islands, Greek Museums, Kea island, Kea/Tzia, Photography, Solo traveling, Travel, Urban travel tales

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 is reviewed by the highly acclaimed Exile Room, an art space and very active non-profit organisation operating at the centre of Athens with specific “obsession” the art & practice of documentaries. The last years they have been showing regularly distinctive documentaries from the international scene; they also organise seminars and host the most hospitable events. Thank you Exile Room, […]

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

urbantraveltales,Karthea, Kea/Tzia, Greece

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

March 4, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

For Greek http://goo.gl/x30Frv As in fairy tales, we stand uncertain at crossroads. As pilgrims we make stories along the way and have interesting encounters. We start at 9:30 am from Korissia, the harbor of Kea, the island known also by the name of Tzia. At Kato Mera (Katomeria), we stop to eat omelets in the traditional kafeneio. While breakfast is prepared, we pass quickly from the stone shed, hidden behind the square of the village, which serves as information photo gallery about the archaeological site of […]

Categories: Greek islands • Tags: Archaeology Greece, Archaeology Mediterranean, Cultural travel, Cyclades, Greece, Greek islands, Kea island, Kea/Tzia, Long Reads, Photography, 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

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

urbantraveltales, spring at Greek island, Kea

Walking by the sea after a long winter…

February 25, 2013 by Lisa Samloglou

Usually the words come first. Today, looking at the photos from my first walk by the sea, I have no words. Words do not serve me. What I need are brushes and a huge palette of paints to catch the arrival of spring after a long cold angry winter that took us by surprise. The intensity of the weather left some of us deeply wounded. We turn to nature to find a shelter for our uncertainties. To see a sign of the regeneration we are […]

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, photography Greece Cyclades Kea Byzantine church

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

November 3, 2012 by Lisa Samloglou

(For Greek click here or look under Greek: Ταξιδιωτική Αφήγηση) A lot of groups are created in Greece lately as we realize that the crisis is installed and is growing. People who no longer want to experience alone their own insecurity, and at the same time are looking for ways to react, to interact and to communicate they come together to intervene in local issues, to share cultural interests and to give a helping hand. The groups are formed from […]

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

urbantraveltales,Kea/Tzia terracotta statues, Ayia Irini, Archaeological Museum , Ioulida,Greek island, Cyclades

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