A Stormy Dawn

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 […]

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Building For Sale In Ioulida – Interested?

Back in September, we took the ferry from Lavrio and headed to the Island of Kea – which takes approximately an hour. We stayed five days on the island, and I managed to take quite a few photos of which I’ll share later. While on the island, we drove to the village of Ioulida (also

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Sowing Tomato Seeds (and other things) In August

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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Olive Grove Recovery After Brutal Winter At Exarchos

As some may know, I purchased a small olive grove last year, more as a hobby than anything else. It had been abandoned for a few years and there was quite a lot of work to be done to try to trim and cut weeds that had literally grown so high and thick, the trees

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Profitas Elias Greek Orthodox Church – Lavreotiki

I still enjoy looking at the architecture of old (and not so old) churches, although over the years, I’ve rejected many of the faith teachings of them. Today, I visited the area of a remarkable Greek Orthodox Church located only about a ten minute or less drive away. I did not pull right up close

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The Two Creative Travelers & Their New House In Italy

Meet Debbie and Stijn I came across this couple a few months ago, when I received an email from Stijn in regard to one of my posts on purchasing an olive grove in Greece. Stijn related how he might be interested in looking for something in Italy and had some questions about how things went

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Men: Save A Ton Of Money & Reclaim Your Shave

Men, are you sick and tired of the outrageous prices of shaving razor blades? Isn’t it a bit frustrating when you buy some new fancy razor, then head out to buy blades, and either they cost a mint, or the place you’re at doesn’t stock that brand? My father had the answer. Your grandfather probably

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Lucky Photo Encounter – Canadair CL-125 Water Bombers

“What is that noise?” I asked myself as I headed towards the patio. I knew it was an airplane, but what could be flying so close and at low altitude? Thankfully I had my camera on the table with the 70-300mm lens as I realized there were two low flying aircraft, and flying right in

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Meet The New Friend – The Gecko

The other day, I was wandering around the front of the house, when I looked down and saw a gecko “sitting” very still on a step that leads to the pedestrian gate. At first, I was a bit taken a back by the site of him as he was much larger than other geckos I

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Full Moon Over Makronisos

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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