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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A bit late with the blog this morning as I didn’t do it last night in advance, but waited until this morning, and then had a lie in. We took a walk yesterday in the late afternoon, through the village, up to the Kastro and around, and then followed the path around to the square. [...]

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Well, not just brown rice, but brown rice, beetroot and other veg, with the occasional tin of tuna. That’s the new regime for the next week as we give ourselves a bit of a detox after the winter. We did this 13 years ago (OMG!) for a whole month, and that month included a week [...]

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The photos today are from Sunday when a group of volunteers got together in Horio and tidied it up a bit. The idea was to clear up places that are a bit ‘off the beaten track’ (and the Kali Strata), and improve the looks of some of the lanes where visitors go but which are [...]

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I managed to grab these before Neil rushed off with the camera. Later he is photographing the Clean up Horio morning, and working on the photos he took last night. Here’s the mayor giving his speech after the show last night and a couple of shots taken during, including some chap in a waistcoat doing [...]

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