Homemade Basil Pesto My herb garden is my pride and joy. I'm no gardener, not really, but for some reason, my herb plants seem to thrive with minimum care. Which may have more to do with the climate here in Greece and not my skills (or lack of) as a gardener? With my basil plants producing so ... [ Read More ]
Hiking The Hills Above Keri Lakes – Zakynthos
Ampelos To Stemiris: Hiking The Hills Above Keri Lakes, Zakynthos Living on a Greek island and being part of a local hiking group can make finding new hikes a bit of a challenge. Our little walking group has pretty much covered the length and breadth of Zakynthos. Last year we hiked half the ... [ Read More ]
How To Make A Concrete Flower Pot
How To Make A Concrete Flower Pot - Step by Step My husband is quite the handyman at times. During the recent lockdown, he knocked up a new bathroom cabinet, a garden table that we gifted to my parents and several concrete flower pots. The idea to make a concrete flower pot came about because I ... [ Read More ]
My Step Into Close Up Nature Photography
My Step Into Close Up Nature Photography Macro and close-up nature photography have interested me since getting into photography. When I'm out walking I'm always drawn to the finer details in nature. From beautiful butterflies, flitting from plant to plant to the tiny bugs congregated on ... [ Read More ]
Inexpensive Bubble Photography Set-Up
Bubble photography was something I thought other people did. You know, people with studio set-ups and all the equipment? But it turns out I was wrong and that most people can create an inexpensive bubble photography set-up at home. I watched several videos on the subject, but each one featured ... [ Read More ]
16km Sunday Hike Near Agalas, Zakynthos
Sunday Hike Near Agalas - Through My Lens We are in strange and unsettling times indeed. The whole world is taking a step back and life is standing still. All a little surreal! Our group walks have been cancelled until further notice and I don't expect us to walk together again this side of ... [ Read More ]
Tzatziki Recipe – A Traditional Greek Yogurt, Cucumber and Garlic Dip
Tzaziki A Traditional Greek Yogurt, Cucumber & Garlic Dip This tzatziki recipe is so quick and easy to make I do wonder why people buy the ready-made versions and let's be honest, you can't beat homemade! Having said that if you don't have a tried and tested recipe why wouldn't you buy it? As ... [ Read More ]
A Hike From Volimes To The Church In The Cave, Orthonies
A Hike From Volimes To Orthonies - Through My Lens Since becoming our unintentional hiking group leader, my husband has been coming up with some fantastic hikes. Living on an island and having hiked so much of it already it really is a difficult task to come up with new and interesting walks. ... [ Read More ]
A Quick Update
A Quick Update It's been so long since I put together a blog post I feel like a newbie all over again! Since the last post, I've changed my hosting site and have been having a real think as to what direction I would like to take the blog. Not as easy as it sounds, I can tell you and I've never ... [ Read More ]
Simple Chocolate Squares Recipe – Too Good For Children
Easy Chocolate Squares Recipe Recently I was asked to make a sweet treat for a fundraising high-tea. Being short for time, whatever I made had to be quick to throw together, but be moreish too. What to bake? What to make? Then I remembered this easy chocolate squares recipe I used to make for the ... [ Read More ]
Wildflowers On Zakynthos In February
Spring Comes Early On Zakynthos Back along I shared a photo post of our walk around Lagadakia in February. It was a very pretty walk with plenty of wildflowers en route. Having taken and shared more than enough photos from our walk in that post I thought the wildflowers of Zakynthos deserved a ... [ Read More ]
Greek-Style Marinated Fresh Anchovies Recipe (Marinated Gavros)
Greek-style Marinated Anchovies (Marinated Gavros) The Greeks love their fish and like to keep meals simple - my kind of cooking. Now anchovies (gavros) may not conjure up images of a delicious light lunch to most people. If you've had those awful, mushy sad anchovies in a jar, I promise you ... [ Read More ]
A Walk Through The Olive Groves – Lagadakia In February
A Walk Through The Olive Groves Lagadakia In February Not all the hikes we do on Zakynthos are difficult. There are plenty of shorter, less challenging routes for people who want to enjoy an easier walk. One such walk we did was around Lagadakia in February. The group met in the village of ... [ Read More ]
How To Freeze Fresh Herbs
How To Freeze Fresh Herbs There's something special about being able to nip out to the garden to pick fresh herbs to cook with. It's a simple pleasure and their flavour is superior to anything you'll buy in the shops. The problem is that not all herbs keep producing year-round. The answer to that ... [ Read More ]
A Hike Up Skopos On Zakynthos
A Hike Up Skopos: Argassi To Kalamaki And A Very Steep Climb Through My Lens Zakynthos is an island and one of the problems of hiking on an island is that you soon run out of places to hike. Luckily our hiking group don't see it as a problem, we see it as a challenge. A challenge to find new ... [ Read More ]
How To Keep Herb Plants Producing Leaves
How To Keep Herb Plants Producing Leaves I'm not a person renowned for my gardening skills, but one area I seem to have conquered is the herb garden and now manage to keep herb plants producing leaves, so I get the most out of my herb garden. It wasn't always so. When I first planted my ... [ Read More ]
Kampi To Keri Coastal Hike – Part Two
Kampi To Keri Coastal Hike Through My Lens Last week I shared part one of our Kampi to Keri Coastal hike. It was an amazing 25km hike that we had been toying with for a while, but had to be fit enough as a group before stepping up to this challenge. The other part of the challenge was ... [ Read More ]
Kampi To Keri 25km Coastal Hike, Zakynthos
Kampi To Keri 25km Coastal Hike Through My Lens Oh my! I think I may just have forgotten how to blog! It's been an age, well, three months (to be precise) since I wrote my last post and I've finally put the cr*p behind me that was dragging me down and draining my mojo. Negative people are ... [ Read More ]
The Carnival Weekend 19km Challenge
The Carnival Weekend Hiking Challenge Here in Greece the start of Lent is preceded by ten days of carnival festivities, starting with 'Smokey Thursday' and ending with a big carnival weekend. Clean Monday is the equivalent of Pancake day, but a little different and a big holiday. Not being ... [ Read More ]
14km Hike To The Cliffs At Kiliomenos
14km Hike To The Cliffs At Kiliomenos The beauty of Zakynthos just never seems to end. Last Sunday the Carry On Walking group extended a previous hike to the cliffs at Kiliomenos to 14km. Kiliomenos is an area of Zakynthos we have explored many times, but I think this was probably my favourite ... [ Read More ]
A Blustery Hike To The St Andreas Monastery Ruins, Zakynthos
A Blustery Hike To The Ruins Of St Andreas Monastery Ruins, Zakynthos Through My Lens Last Sundays hike was a very blustery one to find the ruins of the St Andreas monastery on Zakynthos. It is a hike we've done before, but we wanted to approach it from a different angle just to make it ... [ Read More ]