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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

The purpose of my blog: 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! What inspires me is a traveler’s not a tourist’s approach and the desire to share it with the world and make it more beautiful, a home where everyone may find the space for active love and purposeful creativity. Miriam Caskey, Stories from the Archaeological Excavations at the site […]

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

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

September 24, 2018 by Lisa Samloglou

Ο στόχος του blog μου: Να προβάλλω τα ευεργετήματα που προκύπτουν όταν αγκαλιάζουμε την Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά και την Οικολογία. Οι αναρτήσεις Ελληνικά και Αγγλικά γίνονται κατόπιν ενδελεχούς επιμέλειας και έρευνας, με δικές μου φωτογραφίες. Απολαύστε το ταξίδι! Εμπνέομαι από τη προσέγγιση της ταξιδιώτισσας, όχι της τουρίστριας και από την επιθυμία να μοιραστώ αυτήν την οπτική για να κάνουμε τον κόσμο πιο όμορφο, ένα σπίτι όπου ο καθένας θα βρίσκει το χώρο όπου θα εκφράζει ενεργητικά την αγάπη του και […]

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

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

October 20, 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; 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 […]

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

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

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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 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 crossroads. As pilgrims we share stories along the way, from the writer/blogger Lisa Samloglou, 2013 The starting point is Korissia, the harbor of Kea. The Cycladic island is also known by […]

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

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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: Greek islands, Απόψεις, Ταξιδιωτικά μου Ημερολόγια, My Travel Journals, Reflections on love and other arts • Tags: Cultural heritage, Culture, Ecology, 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

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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 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 […]

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

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 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, first published on 8 August 2012 2012 © Copyright. All rights reserved I am visiting the Archaeological Museum at Ioulida, the capital of the Cycladic island of Kea/Tzia, […]

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