Dear Friends of Kythera, it's been raining cats and dogs on Kythera - this is the wettest September I've every experienced here. Feels more like late October. Little rivers run down the roads, the builders are all huddle...
Dear 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...
Dear 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...
Dear 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...
Dear Friends of Kythera, I'm always amazed at how many of you make it all the way to Kythera from Australia – I find it enough trouble to get there from Germany, only 3 hours away. Of course it's not always possible to t...
Dear 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...
Dear 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...
Dear 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...
Dear Friends of Kythera, just a quick report to start with: I was on Kythera last week - wet and cold but often sunny and very very green - and heard the latest news from all quarters. It's a lovely atmosphere there at t...
Dear Friends of Kythera, First of all, belated best wishes for the new year to all of you from a very cold Berlin (-17 a couple of nights ago). I spoke to my aunt Koula on Kythera in mid-December, before I left to celebr...
>Festive Season, Family Season Dear Friends of Kythera, this is your big chance. In a few weeks you'll be together with your extended family and you'll have the chance to see the generations mixing with each other. Or wi...
Dear Friends of Kythera, if you are as interested as I am in stopping Kythera being turned into a wind-generation plant for the Peloponnese, then we need to keep up the heat on the local government on the island. If you...
Dear 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...
Invitation Kythera-Family.net Party next Week view the full-colour online invitation: /download/partyInvitation.pdf Dear Friends of Kythera, next Tuesday night on the 19th at 8pm we're putting on a party at one of Kyther...
Dear 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...
Dear 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...
>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...
Dear 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...
>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...
Kytherian 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...
