This morning I met Kiria Vakis who was on her way to the chapel of Agios Georgios. There might be lonely people on the island, but never lonely saints. I myself each day visit this …
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Author: Smitaki
A Robinson feeling
A long time ago I read the story about a German couple, they were utopians, that a century ago started a new life on Floreana, a deserted Galapagos island (The Galapagos Affaire by John Treherne). …
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The empire of stones
Lesvos has more stones than olives. You fall over them in the fields or bump into one of the millions of laid walls. There’s no piece of land without a stone wall. In the mountains …
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I love Athens – Room 810
About my hospital adventures in Athens.
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I love Athens – ICU
My adventures in an Athens hospital.
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I love Athens – Hades
Even in times of corona you think you are untouchable. You have a healthy life, you feel good and all the bad things normally happen to others. This is how it was, until disaster struck …
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A Corona Blues
about corona times and nature.
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Two hungry cooks
About Italian food and the similarities with the Greek kitchen.
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Refugees
About plants, fish and insect whom do not belong in Greece.
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The King of Eftalou is gone
(2002-2021) The King of Eftalou is gone after 19 years he took off to heaven or to the eternal hunting fields (as we say in Dutch) that fits better to this small polar bear In …
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