March 2013
View a colour version with pictures of this newsletter here: www.kythera-family.net/download/NLMarch2013.pdf Dear Friends of Kythera, what a busy few months it has been! The Kythera From the Air book is finally finished...
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View a colour version with pictures of this newsletter here: www.kythera-family.net/download/NLMarch2013.pdf Dear Friends of Kythera, what a busy few months it has been! The Kythera From the Air book is finally finished...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, I received the sad news this week that a great Australian-Kytherian, Professor Manuel Aroney, has died in Sydney. As many of you already surely know, Manuel was not only a major force for the goo...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, if you long for the round brown bread from Yianni's bakery in Karavas, miss the lapping of the water on the shores of any beach between Pelagia and Barbarossa's Lagoon, or wish you could spend yo...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera,our Kythera, ever full of surprises, last week yielded up yet another to me, although I've been exploring the island almost every year since 1984. The seed was planted after a dinner in Potamos I...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, I'm in Piraeus now after a week on Kythera. When I arrived it was still chilly at night and few people braved the cool Mediterranean. By yesterday the nights were balmy and the seats outside the...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, one big question facing many of us going to Kythera this year is: "where to get online"? With your help we'd like to put together an internet map of our island to ensure that those of us with our...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, here are two Easter pieces by our most diligent writers. Our Anna responded to my call for a piece within a couple of hours! That's what Easter (and the warming weather) can do for one's energy l...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, Anna is back! After her winter hibernation our star reporter Anna Cominos is back with the island news and views. We also have another poignant article from Maria of Lourandianika with her recoll...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, the Greek summer school holidays have begun and the island is starting to fill up. Within a week or two the high-season will begin and empty beaches will be a fond memory. The heat has also begun...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, my son's and I arrived on Kythera on Thursday - my wife will join us this week - and we have been busy settling in and visiting as many friends and relatives as possible before they get miffed at...
Open entry>52 Weeks In Tsirigo - Crack Go The Red Eggs by Anna Cominos 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 m...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, Spring has arrived in Europe (well it has on Kythera and more-or-less has in Berlin but probably not in Northern Finland...) - Anna Comino's latest website "blog" below will give all of us not lu...
Open entry>How to keep your Favourite Greeks Talking... 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 relativ...
Open entryKytherian Christmas Dear Friends of Kythera, have you ever wondered about what it would be like to spend Winter and Christmas on Kythera? Two new "blogs" from Anna Cominos gives you a taste of it - you can read them belo...
Open entry> Contents: - Newsletter - Anna Comino's Kythera-Blog - George Tzannes' Exhibition opening in Kapsali. 11. August. - Chrisanthe Comino by Gaye Hegeman - Interview with Kythera's Mayor Koukoulis - Real Estate Listings Dea...
Open entryJoin our Team! Dear Friends of Kythera, the Kythera-Family.net team needs more volunteer interviewers, collators and editors. Fascinating information about Kythera is still unwritten or undigitalised and there are dozens...
Open entry1. Newsletter 2. Karavitiko Competition 3. Wonderful Recent Entries Dear Friends of Kythera, I'm pleased to announce that the first official Kythera-Family.net "Discover your Roots" day is to be held on Saturday the 13th...
Open entryFull Steam Ahead At the time of writing we are quickly approaching the 2000th entry on the Kythera-Family.net website, an increase of more than 500 since last month. Family trees, modern landscapes, nicknames and general...
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