August 2011
Dear Friends of Kythera, I'm writing this to you at sunrise on a beautiful morning at Agia Moni, high above Avlemonas and Diakofti. One of my ancient aunts is staying here for August and I've come to pick her up to take...
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Dear Friends of Kythera, I'm writing this to you at sunrise on a beautiful morning at Agia Moni, high above Avlemonas and Diakofti. One of my ancient aunts is staying here for August and I've come to pick her up to take...
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, 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 entryContents 1. Newsletter 2. James Fardoulys Exhibition 3. Great Walls of Kythera 4. KFN Site Statistics 5. Life on Kythera by Maria of Lourandianika 6. Recent Message Board entries 7. Collateral Damage of Wind-Turbines 8....
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 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, after 10 wonderful weeks on Kythera, we are back in Berlin and missing the island very much - my son's continue to run about here calling out "pame yia banyio " (let's go for a swim!) in Greek. T...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, after 10 wonderful weeks on Kythera, we are back in Berlin and missing the island very much - my son's continue to run about here calling out "pame yia banyio " (let's go for a swim!) in Greek. T...
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 entryKytherian Jigsaw By Vikki Vrettos Fraioli with Terry Chlentzos Keramaris As a young child, I remember my mother telling me stories of my yiayia and papou who had immigrated in the early 1900s from Kythera - via Alexandri...
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 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 entryFrom the Message Board To give you some idea of the way Kythera-Family.net website can help young people keep in touch with their roots and indeed find distant relatives, here is a recent entry from the Message Board sec...
Open entryKythera-Family.net Newsletter December 2004 1. Newsletter Introduction 2. Letter from Kythera by Robin Tzannes 3. Kythera Cultural Tour Holiday 4. Pick of the site 5. Interview with a Champion 6. Kytherian Survey Results...
Open entryKytherian Trees I received an email in June from Telemachos Combis in Athens. It contained a computer file which is perhaps the most important single entry yet destined for the our website. Realising its complexity and p...
Open entryThe Kytherian Family Tree The most ambitious and technically difficult part of the website is at last online: the family tree section. Up until the middle of the last century, Kytherians predominantly married Kytherians,...
Open entryDear Friends of Kythera, The website has grown by leaps and bounds since its inception 2 months ago. There are now over 190 entries making it a great resource for all things Kytherian. We are still working on the family...
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