It’s not always easy to live in nature and especially under the trees. In spring you have to cut back weeds as numerous as hay in a stack and hack away at nature that wants …
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Author: Smitaki
The Big Five of Lesvos
(Yellow Rhododendron) You will find The Big Five in many variations. The most known is the Safari-Big-Five, originally the five most difficult to kill animals in Africa: buffalo, lions, leopards, rhinoceros and elephants. We don’t …
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Boat stories
Lesvos, boats and the Bellatrix.
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A mad neighbour
(Turkey seen from Eftalou) >Spring is in the air and everywhere they mop, sweep, paint, mow, prune and brush: Lesvos slowly enters a new season full of surprises. Once again a new ferry connection between …
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The Gauguin of Lesvos
About the Triad museum and the painter Theofilos.
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Via Mytilini
About Mytilini and the many strangers now living there.
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Cemetery of Fan mussels
About fan mussels, sea silk and pearls.
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The forest under the road
About the petrified trees, found during the building of the new road Kalloni – Sigri.
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The earth shakes
(The remains of a city gate of Old Andissa) I’m restless, waiting for the next shock: the trembling of the earth, thundering like a heavily loaded truck passing by, the glasses, lamps and paintings shaking …
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My dear Emi
For a dear friend
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