salamander1960

A Steemit Identity Crisis

DSCN2502.JPG Maybe you old hands can tell me where I am going wrong but no matter what URLs I paste from my various blogs and social media feeds, my Cover pictu...

Greek Hospitality

Hospitality    Not just a word but more like a life value.    Especially, for the Greeks since ancient times. Hospitality='Filoxenia' (frien...

Waiting for the Storm

On 13 November 2017 Symi was hit by Storm Eurydice and life has never been the same on the island since. Don't get me wrong. We have had flash floods before. A ...

Spring is in the Air

Greek islands aren't just the summertime clichés of Santorini, Mykonos and clubbing on the beach. Come in the rainy season and find a different kind of magic. T...

THE YOUNGEST LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD? DIE ANTWOORD IS AFRIKAANS!

South Africa has eleven official languages: English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Swazi Ndebele, Sotho, Northern, Sotho, Tsonga, Venda Spreading it’s roots i...

Wacky Facts by Agent K #18: Did You Know Prisoners In Paris Were Once Offered Freedom If They Agreed To Marry Prostitutes

Paris, je t'aime....You have probably seen the specific meme on t-shirts, souvenirs of any kind, cabarets and posters. Heck, there's even a movie titled like th...

Thoughts from a Small Greek Island #2

I live on an island where it seldom rains between May and October. Temperatures are in the 40s centigrade in the summer and can drop to freezing in the wet wint...

Greetings from a Small Greek Island

I have just joined Steemit. It makes sense as I have been blogging Symi, Greece, since 2001 and blogging styles have changed over the years. It was called an on...

Thoughts from a Small Greek Island

I live on the small Dodecanese island of Symi. Surrounded by Turkey on three sides and only about 25 nautical miles from the popular holiday island of Rhodes, S...