Tripping on a Fort today

The small but glorious Castello del Molo (Koules) at the port of Heraklion in Crete.

In awe of the super snowed Mount Ida (or Psiloritis, Zeus' birthplace, which is the highest on the island at 2456 m) in the back, on a super hot -22 C - day...

...so hot that I started seeing double...

Kos - history and more history

the wetland at Psalidi, not so wet these days...

big, very big tree

super-wow

walking through the city's open archeological areas

the Asklipeion - the most amazing archeological site, after Delphi for me in Greece, very Mayan
-like steps and scale, with a gorgeous forest around it

I havent been blogging for quite a while, but have been travelling mucho for work mostly, Kos island, Peloponnese and the fire stricken areas, Skyros island blah blah. But I'll just be posting Kos, which despite the fact that its an island developed for mass tourism, it made quite an impression on me, beautiful old italian-era buildings, the city with all its historical layers that makes it such a joy to walk through and more...plus the images from the fires are just too damn depressing.

Island fires

Went to Kea (Tzia) island this past weekend to relax and guess what...? Fire...again...this time near the archaeological site

Island hopping

This summer's itinerary came to an end...

Part 1 - NE Aegean - Free camping on Ag. Efstratios...

...on the wonderful beach of Ag. Demetrios which we didnt leave for 10 days!

Early morning on Limnos' castle with some friends that escaped from Parnitha's fire.

What could I possibly have taken???

Silence of the lambs in Limnos...

...more weird stuff.

Road signs on Lesvos' NE coast.

The wonderful old baths at Thermes - Lesvos...

...replaced by the new ugly ones.

A 20 million year old Sequoia dude in the Fossilized Forest of Lesvos.

The coast of Turkey covered by a diet-cloud.

Part 2 - The Cyclades - gorgeous waters of Polyaigos.

A cute yard in Kimolos.

Apple island

The rocks at Paleohori beach - Ireland or Ivory Coast?

Some thing on the beach...

Went to Milos island a few days ago for a work related conference...ended up at the beach...this place's geology never ceases to amaze me.

Another Greek island ferry experience

...love the fine red print

Just like every summer, this year again there has been a lot of hype concerning how old some of the Greek ferry boats are and how bad it is for tourism and that they should be taken off the shipping routes. This poster is from Romilda, a boat well known for its problems and it just goes to show that since rabies has been erradicated in wildlife, especially canine, in most EU countries since the 1990's, nobody has bothered with this really trashy ferry since. Today rabies is spread and maintained in the EU by red foxes only...and I sure as hell haven't seen any on the boat. Rock on Mr Kefallogiannis I say!!!

Off to Mystery Island

( Google Earth photo)

I'm finally leaving tomorrow for my long-awaited, 3-week summer holiday. So no posts for a while. I'm not revealing where though...whoever can guess which Cycladic island this is - wins 5 kg's of fresh lobster!

Off to Hydra for the weekend

Brazilian dreams

I don't know why i decided to pull out last summer's photos from Fernando de Noronha...maybe cause i wish i was lying on Praia do Sancho, drinking my palmito juice, chilling in oblivion with my friends...instead of being in my Pikermi office, typing up report after report!