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On the day after the most-popular Greek-holiday, the Panayia’s (the dormition of the Virgin) celebration, Kythera feels like the main attraction of a bizarre David Copperfield illusion. ‘They’ (the long awaited tourists)...

Well Kythera’s topical Boat Syndrome (the boat’s on/off and lack of available timetables) has come to a crashing halt on the rocks off the island opposite Diakofti. Yes indeed folks, the rust- bucket optimistically named...

Recent experience allows me to earnestly confirm that Kythera is an Enigma! Just when you feel you have a handle on the island’s machinations and have ‘it’ all worked out. Realising a deep sense of how the complex social...

I am writing this edition of '52 Weeks In Kythera' blog from distant Athens as there is NO BOAT for me to return to the island. That's right folks the island has been without any sea- connection for close to a week. Yes,...

One major characteristics that makes time spent on Kythera at the same time divinely fulfilling and other times bust-a-blood-vessel irritating, is that the classic time-line as is understood in the western world corkscre...

Either it has been a long-hard winter or Kythera is definitely on the tourist radar. If the Easter swell of visitors, both Athenians and international is any measure of travellers Kythera-bound this Summer, those ‘Rooms...

Kythera is a bloom and all is splendid. Red poppies grow from abandoned rock walls, wild orchids lurk in the shadows of elderly Plane trees and wild Daisies line all the roadsides…..a visual sensory overload. A steady 48...

I have been following Anna's excellent blog relating the recent events on the islands with great interest. As an expatriate resident (German national/UK resident), currently renovating an old village house on the island,...

Is the fragility of Death linked to seismic activity? While the Greek mass media speculates about a futuristic natural catastrophe, this week Kythera has been plunged into deep grief with the sad passing of two popular p...

Kithira is a world of EXTREMES as the past two weeks can account. SNOW, daily EARTHQUAKES, those dreaded WINDMILLS……………and a lot of hot air!!! and that my friends is my quick round-up of Kythera as it stands today Thursd...

I have been impressed with the stuff written by Anna Cominos for some time, but this last blog of hers about the windmills that will have such a negative effect on the island's ecosystems really stopped me in my tracks....

A while ago there was an interesting entry here concerning Kytherian thrift. I personally think thrift is a very good thing, even when I find it in its extreme forms (as long as it doesn't degenerate into selfishness or...

Debate is turning to action in Kithira,-regarding the proposal to lease local land so that a power company can create ‘windmill parks’ to sell electricity back to the DEH (National Electricity Co). The lack of political...

Dear Friends of Kythera I'm in a plane again, this time flying back from a short stay in Athens. I spent most of the day making kourabiethes with my Aunt in Maroussi. Cooking with your Greek relatives is probably the bes...

Some weeks living in Kythera is like watching non-rating television - your kind of trapped in Groundhog Day, the same day in day out, except everyone has a few more wrinkles. And other weeks it seems you are on the front...

Will the Gods of Kytherian Weather make up their minds up or what????? Just when the body and soul becomes accustomed to the cold of winter, olive wood is collected to stoke the wood fires, the sun peaks out behind the v...

Kalli Minia ke Kalli Hronia (Good month & a Good Year) to all and May peace and humanity prevail and above all good health. The sea is swelling and the bright wintery days of the yiortes (holidays) have been replaced by...

Christmas in Kythera The days leading into Christmas day have been divine; winter-warm and windless. Most people have finished with the olive-picking for this season and the Olive-Presses will only open sporadically afte...

Hi, looking for a house or similar to rent from late May to early September or part of that time. Grandmother Irini Comino, Aroniadika, grandfather, Dimitri Katsoolis, Katsoolianika. They lived in Yenda, NSW, Where I gre...

52 weeks in Tsirigo – week 3 The island is gripped with ‘Yiortes’ fever. As lead into the sobriety of Christmas Day, and the upside of Greek Orthodoxy (faithfully practiced by few) is the string of Saints Days like Ayiou...