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Category Archives: LIFE .jpg) So much blue and a narrow strip of land emerging. This image is the definition of a Cycladic island. Liberating simplicity. Two colors for two words: nostos and algos. Nostalgia* * The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.” Milan Kundera, […] .jpg) A Cycladic food festival in Athens! How cool is that? This Friday, Saturday and Sunday, in Athens, at the Benaki Museum -Pireos, will take place the second Gastronomy Days Festival: exploring the contemporary identity of Greek tastes which establishes its existence in the perpetuation and preservation of a cultural-gastronomic tradition of thousands of years. Three days […] .jpg) of an island I didn’t drive before moving to the island. Why drive, when there are trains and buses, the metro, hundreds of taxis and always people around when you decide to take a walk? In an island, driving is essential. More essential than an electrical blanket, which is, believe me, on the top five […] .jpg) On a day like this, griege is all I can think of: a suitable word for the blend of grey and beige, for the unfinished; not fully processed, neither bleached nor dyed textile of a heavy Sunday sky. A sky that makes Sunday feel like a huge waiting room, where you just want to sit, […] |
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