Brits in Greece and Pork Pies in Athens
We all knock Facebook now and again, me included, usually about how much time we spend on there, logging on to say Happy Birthday to someone and suddenly noticing that two hours...
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We all knock Facebook now and again, me included, usually about how much time we spend on there, logging on to say Happy Birthday to someone and suddenly noticing that two hours...
On seeing Penelope Lively’s informative book, “Oleander, Jacaranda” mentioned in a magazine, I thought to myself; ”I must read this book again” Penelope Lively, born and raised in Egypt, just before...
Every year, in the month of March, the Zappeion Megaron exhibition hall, located in the centre of Athens, hosts Oenorama, Athens’s wine week,Greece’s largest wine fair. “Oak Sessions” This...
Guest post written by my daughter Nais Athanasakou I’m stuck in Ioannina on a business trip. What to do, what to do? I’ve surfed the internet, talked on the phone, texted some friends...
The finest part of my day is the moment after waking, when I draw back the curtains, throw open the shutters, and am greeted by a glorious, Greek, sunny morning. ...
Ladurée, the famous French patisserie, regularly joins forces with fashion designers, Christian Louboutin in 2009, and later the same year, with Marni, for spring 2015 it’s the turn of the grand Italian...
The Greek language has many mysterious words, words that we can try to express in another tongue, but rarely succeed in doing so. Words better understood by experiencing them rather than speaking them....
Melina is back, well, she never really left! Melina is my three year old granddaughter, the star of our family, our first and only grandchild, (So far!). Luckily, she lives close by to...
Greek ranks as the richest language in the world; Europe’s oldest, with five million words and seventy million word types, existing for more than four thousand years. Other ancient languages did exist before Greek,...
On the 25th of March (in Greece, a national holiday, established in 1838 with a Royal Decree by King Otto’s government), Greece, along with Greeks all over the world, will be celebrating the...
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