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Tails of Athens: The olive tree story
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Travels,music,politics,gardening and cats. The olive tree story. One of the reasons I like the ancient Greeks is because they were born story tellers.They had a story for everything: stars,trees,birds,animals,thunders, name anything and they had a tale to tell of how it came to be. So here is the myth about the most important of trees. Athena struck the rock with her spear and an olive tree grew. One version of the story says that Cecrops,the mythical first King of Athens-a creature half man half snake-c...
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Tails of Athens: Kerala Backwaters/Βαρκόσπιτα!
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Travels,music,politics,gardening and cats. Η Κέραλα,κάτω κάτω στην νοτιότερη άκρη της Ινδίας,είναι ένα μερος γοητευτικό με πολλές εναλλαγές τοπίων. Από τούς δροσερούς λόφους με τις φυτείες μπαχαρικών και τσαγιού. Κατεβήκαμε στις ακτές της Αραβικής Θάλασσας. Στόχος τα περίφημα Backwaters. Kerala -"God's own Land"- is a fascinating place. After the cool tea hills of Thekaddy. We had the chance to explore the famous Backwaters. Houseboats -ketuvallams-are made of wood and bamboo and were once used to transp...
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Tails of Athens: 2011/08
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Travels,music,politics,gardening and cats. A bundle of joy! It has been the worst summer in years! A very close beloved relative has been fighting for his life, another one died two weeks ago,family came crushing down-everyone blaming everyone else-and no ray of hope anywhere. Have you ever noticed that bad things happen all at the same time? Then,just after the funeral of my father-in-law,as I was getting back home.yes,you've guessed it.I heard a faint miaow! We reserved the honor of name-giving for our...
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Tails of Athens: The Lipizzaners/Ενα πρωι στη Βιέννη
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Travels,music,politics,gardening and cats. The Lipizzaners/Ενα πρωι στη Βιέννη. Browsing through my photos,the ones I have in digital form,I came across this guy:) Is he gorgeous or is he gorgeous? Three years ago in Vienna, we were heading for some hot chocolate,when I noticed a thick glass wall on my right. And there they were! The former palace stables of the Lipizzaner stallions! A day later, I came face to face with this noble beauty! Η ράτσα δημιουργήθηκε το 1583 στην περιοχή Λίπιτσε στην σημερινή ...
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Tails of Athens: Worthy it is!/Axion Esti!
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Travels,music,politics,gardening and cats. Milos,Sarakiniko-an out of this world sparkling white rock cove. Time to look straight at Summer's eyes! Unrelenting sun, a blessed sea and the emptiness of the wild rocks. Time to fill up depleted batteries with my all time favorite hymn to everything beautiful and hurtful in this small corner of the globe. Axion Esti" in Greek, the epic poem by Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996). Elytis was a major poet of the '30s generation,one of the two Greeks Nobel laureates.
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Tails of Athens: 2012/03
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Travels,music,politics,gardening and cats. 25η Μαρτιου, ωρε παιδιά καημένα! Η εθνική επέτειος τιμήθηκε με συλλήψεις (προληπτικές) προσαγωγές (επίσης προληπτικές) αψιμαχίες χημικά και κρανοφόρους (μονο τα τάνκς λείπανε,αλλά μην τα θέλουμε όλα δικά μας). Αν κάποιοι ανατρίχιασαν με τα χουντικής αισθητικής και ιδεολογίας αστυνομικά μέτρα , εγώ θα τολμήσω να πώ οτι ήταν η πιό αληθινή εθνική επέτειος εδώ και δεκαετίες. Πέσανε οι μάσκες, ωρέ παιδιά καημένα! Στις δημοκρατίες οι ηγέτες δεν φοβούνται τους πολίτες!
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Tails of Athens: 2012/01
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Travels,music,politics,gardening and cats. The world tree is safe! I do love the persistent pagan elements that have managed to survive centuries of persecution by the Church! People here have stubornly kept them alive and the Church had no option but to respect and incorporate them in it's rituals :). Epiphany is the day the nasty demons of the underworld have to go back to the deepest parts of the earth. Their 13 days of causing mischief among the humans are over! Εither some faithful (and brave) souls...
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Tails of Athens: 2012/06
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Travels,music,politics,gardening and cats. Divine Twins of Sparta. A couple of weeks ago we got a really cool treat:A visit to Taygetus, the majestic mountain range, which looms over the city of Sparta! Zoom in the photo, behind the last hill to the left.This is Spaaarta). Taygetus is a very masculine mountain with a very feminine heart full of forests, deep ravines, rivers and caves. Dozens of beautiful villages dot the slopes of the range and spread down to the fertile valley of river Eurotas. The myth...
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Tails of Athens: 2011/07
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Travels,music,politics,gardening and cats. Την αφορμή μου έδωσε η Ολίβια με τις υπέροχες φωτογραφίες της υπέροχης κόρης της. Στην παραλία. Και σχολιάζει η μανούλα:. Ειναι απίστευτο πόσο αλλιώτικη είναι οταν είμαστε εξω στη φύση.αναρωτιέμαι πόσο κοντρα στη φύση μας φτάσαμε να ζούμε σε κουτάκια σε τσιμεντένια κτίρια". Και αρχισα να σκέφτομαι πώς και πού παίζουν τα παιδιά σήμερα. Θυμήθηκα τις αλάνες των κάπως παλαιότερων καιρών,τις αλάνες που μόνο. Μπορουν πιά να απολαμβάνουν. Και απο μια στιγμή και μετα, ο...
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Tails of Athens: 2011/06
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Travels,music,politics,gardening and cats. Πώς πέθαναν οι μύθοι του Πολυτεχνείου! Για πολλά απορώ τον τελευταίο καιρό,για πολλά ντρέπομαι και γιά πολλά είμαι εξω φρενών. Τωρα αναγκάζομαι να ντρέπομαι και για τη γενιά μου! Αυτό που έγινε σήμερα έδωσε την χαριστική βολή σε όσες-λίγες-ψευδαισθήσεις μου είχανε μείνει για κάποιους παλιούς συντρόφους μου. (Ναι,να το ομολογήσω,απο το '72 είχα οργανωθεί-στην παρανομία πρώτα και μετά κανονικά). 500 τραυματίες στα νοσοκομεία! Ας μην μελετήσω συναδέλφους -νυν μεγάλ...
