It's Transition Time! This week has been a funny old week. Not just because it's the the transition time, when Zakynthos goes from sleepy winter mode into crazy summer mode, but because it's also our Easter. This transition time is unsettling. Routines change and there is a feeling of ... [ Read More ]
Archives for April 2016
Take Care Of Your Skin This Summer
Take Care Of Your Skin This Summer With spring in full swing, most of us enjoy getting out and about in the better weather, but do you take steps to take care of your skin before you step out the door to spend a few hours outside enjoying the sun? Or do you just grab your bag/dog/camera/child and ... [ Read More ]
Scarce Swallowtail Butterfly
A Scarce Swallowtail In contrary to what the name suggests the scarce swallowtail butterfly is not scarce. In fact there are certain flowers that seem to attract nothing but scarce swallowtail butterflies. I came across this butterfly whilst walking the dog the other day and I must have looked like ... [ Read More ]
Our Climb To The Dragon Caves And Beyond
Our Climb Up To The Dragon Caves And Beyond This winter as part of the Zakynthos walking group we have done plenty of walking, and there have been a few of us who have enjoyed doing more challenging midweek walks. The climb up to the Dragon caves had originally been planned as a mid week walk a ... [ Read More ]
A Quiet Walk With The Dog On The Beach
A Quiet Walk With The Dog I enjoy a walk with the dog and since we no longer do mid-week walking group walks (which is making the week seem much longer), I've been taking the dog out more on his own. Just me, the dog and the camera. This week we've had a couple of nice walks on Kalamaki beach, ... [ Read More ]
Social Media Profiles: When Did You Last Update Yours?
My Social Media Profiles Were In Desperate Need Of An Update I've wanted to update my social media profiles for sometime now, but have been dragging my feet somewhat in the hope that a decent photo of myself may actually be taken. I've now resigned myself to the fact that I'm just not very ... [ Read More ]
The Trees
The Trees We live at the at the bottom of what I like to call mini mountains (in reality they are just rather impressive hills) and at the very top of the mini mountains we can see two trees (we recently learned that they are in fact three trees, but from down below two look like one). I never ... [ Read More ]
The Temperature Is Rising – Or Is It?
The Temperature Is Rising As some of you may know, over here in Greece we've barely had a winter. We've had very little rain, which isn't a good thing and the temperature has been well above average. In fact, it's safe to say that we can probably count the amount of bad days (weather wise or that ... [ Read More ]
Malteser Ice Cream recipe
Malteser Ice Cream Recipe I've been holding off sharing this Malteser ice cream recipe since last summer, but now the weather is positively summer like, I think it's time to share, don't you? Making ice cream at home isn't the chore it used to be before the introduction of domestic ice cream ... [ Read More ]
Practicing Photography
Practicing Photography Where to start? Except to say that I am fast learning that the only real way to improve my photographic skills is to practice, practice practice and when I think I've taken enough practice photographs, to take a just few more. Digital cameras make practicing photography so ... [ Read More ]