Category Archives: Greece

Tilos: sharply to the top

Posted on July 17, 2013 by BarryH

I’ve mixed the words and the pictures in this post so it’s more trouble to avoid the words. I’m malevolent like that! Friday night and I went for a meal with friends who live on the island. Clichés abound to … Continue reading →

Posted in Greece, Mountains | Tagged Chile, climbing, coast path, craic, footpaths, goat shit, goats, guano, hiking, Koutsoumbas, rock, rock pinnacles, Tilos, trekking | 2 Comments

Tilos: traumatic changes and empty shells

Posted on July 13, 2013 by BarryH

If you get bored with the words and just want to look at the pictures, scroll down and click on the ones you want to see larger. But there are a few more words at the end. Norman Tebbit, one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Greece | Tagged climate, drought, emigration, Greece, Greek Islands, Livadia, London, Micro Horio, night club, old churches, olive press, rocks, roofs, stone houses, Tilos, water supply | Leave a comment

Tilos: rocky ramble and vrachophilia

Posted on July 10, 2013 by BarryH

No matter how rational we like to think we are we mostly make decisions based on subconscious, emotional inputs and then justify them with logic. We reinforce the positives and diminish the negatives in so doing. Thus it was on … Continue reading →

Posted in Greece, Mountains | Tagged Aegean summer, Agios Stavros, decision making, flotsam and jetsam, gorge, Greece, heatwave, rock pinnacles, secluded beach, shade, Stavros beach, subconscious, Tilos, vrachophile | Leave a comment

Greece: art and about in Rhodes

Posted on July 8, 2013 by BarryH

My ferry from Rhodes to Tilos was at 18.00 so I had plenty of time for a leisurely wander around Rhodes Old Town with the camera, even after a sluggish start. We have been wandering around the walled town at … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Greece | Tagged art, clock tower, fountains, Greece, Mandraki, plane tree, Rhodes, Rhodes Old Town, Roloi, Socrates, street art, tree art, walled city | 2 Comments

Greece: to Rhodes

Posted on July 7, 2013 by BarryH

The flight to Rhodes was uneventful if, as all flights, tedious. The taxi ride to the old town was, as ever, an opportunity to tune my ear to the language with the driver doing me the courtesy of speaking Greek … Continue reading →

Posted in Greece | Tagged close to midnight, dancing, Greece, greek set, midnight, ouzeri, Rhodes, Rhodes Old Town, rose petals, roses, sea shells, taxi ride, walled town | Leave a comment

Greece: wild walks or soft fruit?

Posted on July 4, 2013 by BarryH

After a delayed spring and weeks of very indifferent weather it seems that I am about to leave Wales just as a heatwave is promised. Health issue resolved, I have been hesitating to go back to Greece because of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Greece, Mountains | Tagged art, barren mountains, beaches, blackcurrants, creativity, Greece, mountains, Profitis Ilias, raspberries, redcurrants, soft fruit, Tilos | Leave a comment

Wild walks in Greece on hold

Posted on June 2, 2013 by BarryH

My diary for Sunday 2 June reads “16.35 Aegean Airways flight A3603, arrive Athens 22.10”. But I won’t be on it. This was to be the start of a 2 month trip around mountains, gorges and waterfalls in the Peloponnese. … Continue reading →

Posted in Greece, Grey Britain, Mountains, Reflections, Wales | Tagged Bible, Book of Proverbs, changed plans, Greece, Lake District, travelling by bus, Wales | 1 Comment

A Welsh Spring and clichés of violence

Posted on May 26, 2013 by BarryH

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 | Leave a comment

Kalymnos: last walk, last explosion

Posted on May 17, 2013 by BarryH

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 | Leave a comment

Kalymnos: mountains and traditions

Posted on May 11, 2013 by BarryH

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 | 1 Comment