November 2011
Dear Friends of Kythera, last week I had morning tea with Mathias, the IT engineer who originally programmed Kythera-Family.net (KFN). Back in 2002 I conceived the site and he programmed it at a time when the term "socia...
Open entryOur Past Newsletters:
Each month we send out a newsletter with articles and entries regarding Kythera. You can view our previous newsletters below.
Dear Friends of Kythera, last week I had morning tea with Mathias, the IT engineer who originally programmed Kythera-Family.net (KFN). Back in 2002 I conceived the site and he programmed it at a time when the term "socia...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, I'm writing this from a small shady cave at Kalathi Beach on Kythera. The sun is shining, a good wind blowing, and small waves slapping up on the perfect pebbled beach before me. It's Kythera at...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, I've just returned from a 5 day stay on Kythera. Although I've been in Greece in the winter before, I'm always surprised by the atmosphere of the island at this time of the year. The lush verdant...
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, this is of course the last newsletter of the year, so it is a good chance to remind you all of our achievements this year as well as set out our plans for next year. You may remember we completed...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera,sorry for the silence over the last month. We've been travelling and were otherwise busy with family and work. I'm writing this during a lightning visit to Kythera with my baby brother who hasn't...
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, we've moved the site over to a faster server - the few hours the site was off-line last week was the price we paid for it. And the search system didn't work for an entire week. sorry if that caus...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, my colleague George Poulos refers to it as "the Mega-Event". A Kytherian occasion which will again draw all of us who love our island together. The launch of the republished "Life in Australia",...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, I just noticed that there are new maps of Kythera on Google Earth - you can see every tree on the island now. And on that note, the Greek media company Skai has published a great new map of the i...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, In the last newsletter I sent out a request for assistance in pin-pointing natural water-sources on the island. Anestis Diakopoulos and Manolis Baveas were quick to help and so far we have detail...
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 entryFlying over Kythera, Grand Meeting of Kytherians in Queensland. Dear Friends of Kythera, at the bottom of this mail you'll find your invitation to a huge Kytherian event in Queensland, Australia, on the 15th of April. So...
Open entryA Greek-American Discovers Roots in Australia Dear Friends of Kythera, Since we announced our "10,000 Entries" competition in August more than 500 entries have been submitted to the site which not only pushed the counter...
Open entryA Greek-American Discovers Roots in Australia Url to document: http://www.kythera-family.net/index.php?nav=6-21&cid=9&act=9&did=11823 Reprinted from the Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church Epistle, Nov. 2006 By Terry Ker...
Open entryMore than just a Website The Kythera-Family.net website is much more than an online repository. Through it’s existence people have come together who might never have met, and projects have sprung to life which were incon...
Open entryYour Extended Kytherian Family Dear Friends of Kythera, On my last flight to Australia I managed to finish a book by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. called "Breakfast of Champions". The book has of course nothing to do with Kythera, e...
Open entryContent: _Newsletter _Dolmades for Lunch _Recent Message Board entries _THE PICNIC by Harris George Dear Friends of Kythera, for those of you who don't look regularly at the message-board area of the site, we've decided...
Open entry