When the earth heavily shook from the earthquake whose epicenter was close to Samos, I didn’t feel a thing until a friend passed by and asked if I was afraid. We both then noticed the …
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Category: Nature
Enemy or friend
About ants and their nuisance.
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Where is the Greek sun?
More than once, at the beginning of this summer I said: “It’s good that there are no tourists around”. The weather kept putting on and off her winter coat and, except for a tiny heatwave …
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The Magical Empire of Stones
About the stones of Lesvos and a new world.
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Monuments of Lesvos
The olive trees of Lesvos.
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Rivers deep, mountains high
About rivers and its channels.
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Rainmakers
Waiting for the autumnal rain, blackberries which do not get ripe and about refugees who fear the rain.
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Aegean Sea Shenanigans
About the Aegean Sea and ancient cities having disappeared, like the coast lines also changed.
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A Beautiful, dangerous spring
Pollen and Tiger Mosquitos.
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The tulip fields of Chios
Lesvos is part of the birth region of tulips (Turkey and surroundings). These perky flowers are my favourites and each spring I miss them. In Holland in spring, long stretched fields are filled with rows …
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