March 2011
Dear 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...
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Dear 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, 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 entryDear Friends of Kythera, the European Summer is drawing closer and I hope many of you will be making plans to visit Our Favourite Greek Island. If Greece ever needed the support of its Diaspora population it is now, and...
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 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 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 entryNewsletter Letter from Kythera Recent Entries Dear Friends of Kythera, we've had a solid response to our announcement in the last newsletter of our "Discover Your Roots Day" on Kythera in August. So far 35 enthusiastic D...
Open entrycontents of this month's newsletter: 1. Introduction 2. Letter from Kythera 3. Thanking our sponsors 4. Some site statistics 5. Email of the month 6. Entry of the month 7. Frequently asked questions Dear Friends of Kythe...
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