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It has been very windy the past couple of days here on the island. This exacerbated a head-cold? Allergies? that I had felt hovering around. My niece to the rescue…, soupitsa Thia! “ a little soup my eye! A quarter of a pound of beef with potatoes and some sorting grain was scarfed down and…
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It’s a big deal. Every town in Greece has a parade today. It’s 8:30 and every channel on the TV in my very comfortable BnB is relentlessly churning out historical documentaries or world wide news coverage of Greek parades all over the world. Spiritual and worldly leaders stood on a modest reviewing stand and watched…
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Today my very kind niece spent the whole day with me, driving me around the island of Kefalonia. Over the years I have visited Greece quite a lot and been charmed by many places in this country. This. is my first trip to the western side of Greece, however. I could not have imagined how…
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What a lovely place. A sort of wetland, quite well preserved where Artemis’ natural world was having a wonderful time on a cool spring day We had to battle our way out of Athens , contradicting a cross German GPS who had many “ other” ideas but finally my intrepid friend got us there. How…
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And a warm spring day. A great day for a walk up Mount Hymettus . My dear friend who walked part of the Camino Frances with me took me and another friend a short distance out of Athens. This is what we saw A path remeniscent of the Camino and a view of Athens, a…
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But…. Don’t try to make juice. These are the “ bitter” ones that decorate the notoriously narrow sidewalks of this ancient city. My dear friend from the Camino of 2021, Christiana, is hosting me in her interesting and comfortable home in Holargos. Swiss Air took care of me on the evening flight out of Montreal…
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Off we go with good wishes, offers of lifts, reminders, excitement, obsessive checking, dreams, fears, expectation, trepidation, wonder, questions, cleaning of fridge, arranging of flower pots for best sun, waiting, people watching, searching in various bags, pockets, waist packs, gauze bags pinned to various pieces of underwear, panic at “ lost” keys, rummaging , changing…
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A spring walk in the back country of the Laurentian mountains was a big treat today. More beauty is on its way
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The light has changed and things are changing on the park. I want to be ecstatic, I want to lean into it but I’m worried that we haven’t had enough snow, that our winter was deformed, off the ‘ normal’ track. I read an article yesterday that all the famous gardens in Britain are already…
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Is there anything more boring, mundane, commonplace than talking about the weather? Except…. when a magical snowfall greets me as I look over to the park. Now this is what I have been waiting for all winter! Storybook snow, kind snow, forgiving snow that covers all ugliness, all brown and sickly grass, all grey salted…
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