First off, no news: I am waiting for Neil’s photos from the Easter celebrations to come through and will post them when I get some. We’re a bit busy with a wedding today so I may not get them for a couple of days. Meanwhile the good news is that 1066 Productions have released the [...]

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We are right in the middle of the Easter celebrations today here on Symi with tonight seeing the ending of Lent. Yesterday the bells were tolling for most of the day, there were many people heading to church at various times, and several shops and businesses were closed for the day. Tonight there will be [...]

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An oft asked question explained on this Holy Friday: The first factor, the calendar, has to do with the fact that the Christian Orthodox Church continues to follow the Julian calendar when calculating the date of Pascha (Easter). The rest of Christianity uses the Gregorian calendar. There is a thirteen-day difference between the two calendars, [...]

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Here’s the photo of the Audrey 2 that has taken up residence in the garden and appears to be enjoying its stay. No idea what it is. Sitting at home yesterday, at the desk in the afternoon: door to terrace open, balcony doors open, still warm, little breeze, listening to the birds have a good [...]

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Kalo Mina, happy May 1st, Happy May Day! Happy Labour Day in Greece. I am on strike today so I am writing this last night and having it automatically posted. In case you missed your free copy last year, here is the Olive Tree guide to Paska on Symi. This is a DPF file which [...]

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I had a kind of day off yesterday as you might have noticed; the blog post wasn’t by me. Hope you found it interesting. Not that we were busy or anything. Over the weekend Neil weeded the garden and I gave the kitchen a spring clean, we took a walk through the upper part of [...]

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A trip to Greece promises a culinary adventure like no other. Each region of Greece and its islands provide some tantalising local fares that originated centuries ago and provide travellers with the tastiest of trips. The region of Halkidiki provides a gourmet journey of delectable aromas, fabulous flavours, infamous Greek wines and an all-round gastronomy [...]

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So, a weekend is on us and not a lot is planned in the run up to Big/Great/Easter week that starts on Monday. In fact, we seem to have very little going on now, after the dash around that was last weekend, the dance show, the sweeping up and all that. There’s a possibility that [...]

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