Lesvos, its frontiers, refugees and Turkey.

About bad weather, flu and bad dreams.

About some little harbours on Lesvos and the new harbour in Sigri.

For the last few days a Siberian storm from the north has kept most Greeks inside their houses, close to the heating. In Athens it snowed, but here on Lesvos the sodden land finally had …

About bad weather and politic changes.

About burial rituals and: goodbye Giorgos Giannakos.

The New Year presented Lesvos with a thick layer of snow; especially in the higher regions and the mountains where it was plentiful. It got Agiasos renamed Small Switzerland: even without snow this little mountain …

Greek Christmas Songs.

About the Romans on Lesvos and John Williams’ August.

About fire signals and other ways of communication.