Monthly Archives: July 2011

Back home and grumpy

Posted on July 30, 2011 by BarryH

Over the next week I have Ellinophile friends coming to stay so on Thursday early evening I caught the bus to go to Cwmbran to take buy some Haloumi cheese on offer in Lidl and stock up on the very … Continue reading →

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Greece 2011: random afterthoughts

Posted on July 24, 2011 by BarryH

On Friday the Eurozone agreed to bail out Greece for the second time, ensuring that the Euro remains its currency at a time when there has been increasing talk about reverting to the drachma.  Angela Merkel said that it was … Continue reading →

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Greece 2011: Nisyros, Amorgos, Kos ….. time to reflect

Posted on July 21, 2011 by BarryH

Back home now and trying to come to terms with Grey Britain once again.  It has certainly been uniformly and dismally grey since I got back on UK soil and I’m told there has not been much else this summer. … Continue reading →

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Kos: and the last leg

Posted on July 20, 2011 by BarryH

I woke up at the normal time, 07.00 on Monday morning feeling much refreshed after  the first sleep in 2 days. Seven hours sleep is good for me and I went down for breakfast nice and early.  The breakfast terrace … Continue reading →

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Amorgos to Kos: round the clock

Posted on July 18, 2011 by BarryH

I was wrong about the taverna getting ready to close at 02.00. Come 03.00 and it had a new lease of life with a dozen or more people trickling in for a crêpe or an ice cream.  I broke the … Continue reading →

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Amorgos: last day, lots of colour

Posted on July 17, 2011 by BarryH

Saturday was the beginning of a three-day journey home.  Strange limbo kind of day.  Beginning with waking early.  I sleep with the French windows wide open and as I woke and opened my eyes the sky beyond the mountains was … Continue reading →

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Amorgos: from sea to shining sea

Posted on July 16, 2011 by BarryH

No early morning awakenings Friday.  Slept like a log … once I got to bed.  For the first time this trip I fell asleep over the keyboard.  Not a good start at all for what I had planned for Friday. … Continue reading →

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Amorgos: round and about

Posted on July 15, 2011 by BarryH

Woken up early this morning by the on-board tannoy of a Big Boat.  Thought I was dreaming about going back to Kos on Sunday morning.  But no, it was  a Blue Star ferry calling in on its way to Astypalea.  … Continue reading →

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Amorgos: old paths, restored paths … and psycho paths

Posted on July 14, 2011 by BarryH

Amazing walk on Wednesday.  The longest I’ve done on Amorgos and the most spectacular. The first part was up an extremely well stone-paved kalderimi to one of the two mountain villages inland behind Eghiali, Laghada.  It takes about 30 minutes … Continue reading →

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Amorgos: and now for the other end of the island

Posted on July 13, 2011 by BarryH

Tuesday, that was a very funny day.  The more erudite and literary minded blog readers will realise that is a slight misquote of the opening line and title of an episode in the much undervalued Beiderbecke Trilogy (Episode 5, Series … Continue reading →

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