MAGIC & MIGHT AT MYKONOS

First the Magic Do you remember the film “Shirley Valentine”?  Well, I went to where Shirley Valentine was filmed and I felt like Shirley Valentine for a day. After negotiating a maze of narrow laneway-roads with no footpaths and lined with parked cars my...

A TENDER MOMENT IN PAROS

It was our last day in Paros. It was hot and we needed a drink and so we entered a convenience store that we had visited a number of times. This store had every imaginable thing one might need including groceries, kitchen utensils, and laundry needs etc. The usual...

Greek Adventure

Here I am on the Greek Island of Paros and tomorrow we leave for the island of Mykonos. From my hotel window I can see the deep blue and then aqua sea lapping onto the sandy beach alcoves which spread around the cove, above which, are rugged and starkly barren hills...

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS GREECE

Friday 5-7-13-Day 1 What a magical experience, competing out in the open, under the stars in a Greek amphitheater with the crowd cheering and cameras flashing with athletes from all over the world being judged one against the other. The judging finishes. It’s...