Category Greece
Sunday Photo 31
The island of Skyros is perhaps the least known of the Sporades Islands with Skiathos, Alonissos and Skopelos being more popular with holidaymakers. Despite that, Skyros is a wonderful gem and well worth a visit if you want to experience an unspoiled, authentic Greece. This picture was taken from one of the many lovely beaches […]
Friday Photo 30
Its not often that you see ducks in the sea – on the island of Skyros in Greece it seems that salt water isn’t foul to fowls (apologies for the pun!).
Orthodox Easter Sunday Photo
Today is Easter Sunday in the Orthodox Calendar. As Mrs Wilbur is an Athenian we keep the many Greek Easter traditions alive. The meal today will be roast lamb with the table also augmented with hard-boiled eggs dyed red. The red dye represents the blood of Christ spilt for the greater good and of course […]
A-Z April Challenge – Rhodes
Rhodes is a wonderful place. My then girlfriend and I visited in Easter 1999 and had an amazing time. This even culminated in us getting engaged! We flew to the island from Athens, but unfortunately the hotel that I had booked did not cut the mustard with the future Mrs Wilbur and although we had […]
Athens Re-visited
Always a pleasure to visit the Greek capital. Now at the airport with time to share a few pictures…….
Sunday Photo 4
Today’s photo is the Corinth Canal situated in the Peloponnese Peninsular in Greece. It links the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It was completed in 1893, its opening sandwiched between the Suez Canal (1869) and the Panama Canal (1914). 6.4 kilometres (4 mi) in length and only 21.4 metres (70 ft) wide […]
Sunday Photo 3
This photo was taken in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2006. We had arrived there on the overnight train from Konstantinopoli (Istanbul), the first such journey since my inter-rail days of the late ’80s & early ’90s.
The Olympics – Athens 2004
I had always wanted to go to the Olympic Games, so when my wife’s home city was awarded the 2004 Games, plans were hatched. Athens went into a building frenzy to ensure that they put on a great show. After all they were the inventors of the Olympics and the original hosts of the ‘Modern’ […]
When saying no is a cause for celebration……
Today is ‘Ochi’ day in Greece. Parades to mark the day that Greek PM Metaxas said a firm “No” to Mussolini have been celebrated in Greece ever since the end of WWII. I was lucky enough to see the Ochi Day Parade in Thessaloniki in 2008. Here is my account. ‘Next day was a special […]
