DSCN2502.JPG Maybe you old hands can tell me where I am going wrong but no matter what URLs I paste from my various blogs and social media feeds, my Cover picture and Avatar just don't show. What am I

Hospitality    Not just a word but more like a life value.    Especially, for the Greeks since ancient times. Hospitality='Filoxenia' (friend to foreigners)  Hospitality was really important for Greeks

On 13 November 2017 Symi was hit by Storm Eurydice and life has never been the same on the island since. Don't get me wrong. We have had flash floods before. A friend of mine drowned in one. But never

Greek islands aren't just the summertime clichés of Santorini, Mykonos and clubbing on the beach. Come in the rainy season and find a different kind of magic. This is an old dry stone wall surrounding

South Africa has eleven official languages: English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Swazi Ndebele, Sotho, Northern, Sotho, Tsonga, Venda Spreading it’s roots in Africa, Asia and Europe, and being spoken

Paris, je t'aime....You have probably seen the specific meme on t-shirts, souvenirs of any kind, cabarets and posters. Heck, there's even a movie titled like this.  There's no doubt that people from

I live on an island where it seldom rains between May and October. Temperatures are in the 40s centigrade in the summer and can drop to freezing in the wet winters. The terrain is steep and rocky with

I have just joined Steemit. It makes sense as I have been blogging Symi, Greece, since 2001 and blogging styles have changed over the years. It was called an on line diary in those days and putting up

I live on the small Dodecanese island of Symi. Surrounded by Turkey on three sides and only about 25 nautical miles from the popular holiday island of Rhodes, Symi is at once remote and also in the centre