Spiliazeza, located in the Municipality of Lavreotiki is blessed with awesome views of the Aegean Sea and is close to several beaches within walking distance if you’re willing to walk back up!
Here are some of my stories, living in the Spiliazeza, Lavreotiki area of Greece.
It has been a very cool May in these parts; normally I’d be wearing shorts and short sleeves by at least the second week of the month. This year however, we have continued to see night time temperatures down to as low as 10C, with day time highs rarely getting above 22. The past few […]
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Unfortunately it is not a great photo and does not do justice to the mighty power of the winds and seas this evening along the coast of Lavreotiki, in Greece. We finally have a real taste of winter weather beginning today after a fairly mild month of January. We even saw snow flakes coming down
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Throughout the warmer months from May to October, you would rarely see clouds in the sky. This part of Greece really does get a lot of sunshine in those months, with hardly ever a cloud or even a drop of rain. But as the year transitions into December, then January and on through April, clouds
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This January has been quite mild compared to January of 2022, although we’ve certainly experienced some pretty chilly nights on several occasions. Last year however saw many days of chilly temperatures and even below freezing at night, with snow and lots of cold rain and blustery windy days. I can’t recall how many days I
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I was up early on the morning of Tuesday, October 18, 2022 and was luck enough to capture the view from Spiliazeza, looking out toward Makronisos and Kea. The high winds were blowing across the sea, creating a lot of choppy water. While the big dark ominous looking clouds above gave a sense of perhaps
I’ve never sown tomato seeds in August before. Back in Ontario, it would be a dumb thing to do, unless you were growing in a greenhouse and could control the temperature. And here in Greece, the advice I’ve been getting is that it is “too late” to start tomatoes in August. But I’m not so
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It was a beautiful evening Sunday, May 15th, 2022. I was out starting the barbecue up and waiting for the charcoal to be ready for grilling the steaks purchased from an awesome butcher in Ataladi and watched as the moon rose in the still sunlit evening. I grabbed my camera and with the 50mm lens,
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“It’s like night and day!” was an oft used idiom (I haven’t heard it in a while) to describe something that contrasted very differently from something else. For example, a teacher might say, “It’s like night and day how your marks have changed from last semester to this semester. Keep up the good work.” I’ve
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In Greece, among English speaking people, the words sheeps and ships are often interchanged. A ship becomes a “sheep” and a sheep becomes a “ship.” Lambs become “lamps.” I have often giggled and laughed and made up sayings about the ships going down to the sea to board the sheeps, bringing along the lamps with
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In English, ΚΟΚΟΦΟΙΝΙΚΑΣ means “Coconut Palm Tree” – but I don’t think you will find too many of these at ΚΟΚΟΦΟΙΝΙΚΑΣ, between Lavrio and Keratea. Instead, you will find fantastic service and a great selection with valuable local knowledge at this garden centre I’m so happy to have discovered. When I moved to the Keratea/Lavrio
ΚΟΚΟΦΟΙΝΙΚΑΣ – An Awesome Garden Centre, Lavrio/Keratea Read More »