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Category Archives: NATURE

March is here and likes to surprise us with days as glorious as this. Days without greyness and rain, without strong and dusty south winds. Days that wink at you, promising everything that we are waiting from spring: joy, openness and maybe a refreshing restart. To be at the islands at this time of year, […]

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Monday morning & alarm clock & rain = disaster. You know what I’m talking about, right? This blue feeling of February Mondays, bluer than usual when accompanied by heavy pouring rain, is not the most promising start for any week. My mind refuses to wake up, then the snooze button drama starts; and finally, the […]

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Rays of morning light enter through the salty windows; as they get trapped in my mother’s laced curtains, they create sunlight tattoos on the rough island wall. I want to Instagram it, but my cat is sleeping on my lap, so I drink a sip of coffee instead and get back to work. It is […]

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  Day by day, we gain a couple of treasured minutes of daylight. It is enough to open a crack in winter greyness and take courage to jump over the time-gap that leads to spring. It’s still very cold, very rainy and very dark, but we start paying attention to the afternoon chirping of the […]

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Despite of the strong south wind, the moon emerging from the mountains of Naxos makes the evening walkers at Pisso Livadi stop at the drafty yard of Saint Nicholas church to stare at it; they stand still like animals in headlights, pleasantly surprised by the aromas of the old salted cedar trees and the freshness […]

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