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Monthly Archives: May 2013
A Welsh Spring and clichés of violence
Back in Wales and spring has at last arrived. Before I left Arctic blasts whipped across the tops of the mountain ridges dumping snow and lowering temperatures so that buds stayed tight shut long past their usual seasonal opening time. … Continue reading
Posted in Greece, Monmouthshire, Mountains, Pontypool, Reflections, Spring, Wales
Tagged apples, bees, black currants, bluebells, brecon beacons national park, bud burst, cliches, coat of paint, environmental triggers, explosion, fruit production, leaves, oak, oak trees, Pontypool Folly Tower, riot of colour, spring, temperatures, trees, violence, Wales, winds, wire fencing
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Kalymnos: last walk, last explosion
I was unusually apprehensive setting out for the mountains on Wednesday. Since I arrived in Greece towards the end of April the weather had been hot and sunny, more so than might be expected for early summer when it can … Continue reading
Posted in Greece, Reflections
Tagged bombs, col, dodecanese, explosions, explosives, Greece, Italian Path, Kalymnos, mountains, Pothia, Profitis Ilias Kalymnos, sun lover, Vathys
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Kalymnos: mountains and traditions
After the Easter celebrations it was back to the mountains and a change of plan. On Tuesday I caught the morning bus to Chora, the old village above the harbour, then set out to walk up a narrow gorge and … Continue reading
Posted in Greece
Tagged Agios Ioannis Theologos, castle crag, caves, Chora, Chora castle, crickets, Crusader castle, dynamite, Easter, easter celebrations, explosions, filoxenia, goats, Greece, Μουούρι, Kalymnos, knights of st john, monasteries, mountains in greece, Mouri, pasture, Pothis, Profitis Ilias, Profitis Ilias Kalymnos, quarry blasts, spider, tradition, wells
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Kalymnos: Easter with a bang … or two
Clean Friday Pothia, the main town and harbour of Kalymnos on Good Friday, ‘Big Friday’ or ‘Clean Friday’ as it is known in Greek gave a faint inkling of what it must be like in a besieged city like Sarajevo … Continue reading
Posted in Greece
Tagged carnival, Clean Friday, dynamite, Easter, explosions, Good Friday, Greece, Καλό Πάσχα, Kalymnos, Kastri, Pothia, pyrotechnics, Resurrection
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Kalymnos: rock and more rock
The main thing which strikes you about Kalymnos is …. rock. Craggy mountains rise steeply above the harbour and are the dominant backbone the whole length of the island. Much of the rock is precipitous and this plus warm, sunny … Continue reading
Posted in Greece
Tagged Emborios, Greece, Italian Path, Kalymnos, Kastri, Pothia, rock climbing, rocks, Stink Lily
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From Symi to Kalymnos: from peace and quiet to tranquility
On my one full day on Symi I walked across the island to Agios Vasilios, a bay on the far side with a tiny monastery nestled into the cliffs. It was always a favourite with my late wife and I … Continue reading
Posted in Greece
Tagged Agios Vasilios, Emborios, Greece, Horio, ησυχία, Kalymnos, Lapathos Bay, monastery, peace and quiet, Pothia, Symi, tranquility, Yialos
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