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Another weekend is almost over: it’s funny how the sunset colors on a Sunday, can awake all sorts of -I don’t want to go to school tomorrow-memories. It’s also the end of September and it is starting to get a little chilly here at the islands. You can’t go out at night without a light […]

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  • Peter Macken04/10/2013 - 4:13 pm

    it was great Maria, i feel exactly the same, it has a hypnotic sort of old worldly drone, somehow it gets you moving.
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Grape vines are sensitive beings: an old island winegrower told me once that they absorb the positive or negative vibrations around them and that grapes are influenced by people’s thoughts and feelings. I remembered that conversation with the winegrower, while I was visiting my uncle’s vineyard in Ikaria, located in a beautiful place that village […]

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…At the old Ursuline School of Naxos I ‘ve been dying to show you this kitchen stove, discovered during a visit at the old Ursuline School of Naxos. I was wandering at the beautifully renovated building of the school, inside the Castle of Chora -amazed by the architecture, the view and the history of the […]

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