Wasp Spider I love mornings. It's when I feel at my best. That may have something to do with the fact that I do enjoy a morning run (plod) and what I can see on these runs. That time of the day when the world isn't quite awake yet. This week I was plodding along, enjoying the sights and sounds ... [ Read More ]
A Firework Display And A Half!
A Firework Display And A Half Last week I shared a post about our visit into Zakynthos town to witness the local Saints day celebrations. It's a huge celebratory day, with a quite spectacular firework display. And this being the first year I've had a DSLR camera, I really wanted to try my luck at ... [ Read More ]
St Dennis Day 2016 Wasn’t Quite A Washout!
St Dennis Day 2016 Every year, on August 24th, the people on Zakynthos celebrate their local Patron Saint, St Dennis (Dionysios). It's a busy few days on the island, with many Greek people heading over here to spend a few days enjoying the atmosphere. The occasion is marked by a market, where ... [ Read More ]
Sunrise Over Zakynthos
Sunrise Over Zakynthos This week I've found myself with several different photos to share, but this photo of the sunrise is the one that really caught my eye. I was out for a run with my daughter one morning, when we were lucky enough to witness this particularly beautiful sunrise. The sun rays ... [ Read More ]
A Rather Handsome Looking Swallowtail Butterfly
Swallowtail Butterfly You know those times when you are dashing out the door in a race against time? When you've left the phone ringing (not unusual in this house) and you really don't need yet another distraction? Well, that was me last Wednesday. One minute I had all morning and the next ... [ Read More ]
Greek Church Bell Tower
Greek Church Bell Tower It's been a funny old week, photo wise, this week. I did the first module of my online photography course this week, only to find that I've actually taken less photographs than normal! Which I put down to the fact that the first module was all about cameras and camera ... [ Read More ]
Our Evening Out In Pantokratoras
Our Evening Out In Pantokratoras Living on a Greek island in the summer there is no shortage of things to do in the evening. The resorts are in full swing with bars, nightclubs and tavernas open and offering a whole range of evening entertainment to choose from, if you wish to be ... [ Read More ]
Geckos: Positively Prehistoric
Geckos Are Positively Prehistoric It's not unusual to see creatures of a reptilian nature here in Greece. Snakes are often seen slithering across roads and lizards can be seen basking in the sun or doing their amazing death defying moves hunting down small bugs and moths, whilst clinging onto walls ... [ Read More ]
Proof That Fairies Exist?
Proof That Fairies Exist? How nice would it be to live in a world where fairies actually do fly free among the trees and flowers? If that were really the case, I'm sure my family would have been driven stir crazy by me stalking anything remotely resembling a fairy... But how do we now that fairies ... [ Read More ]
Butterflies Getting Jiggy With It
Butterflies Getting Jiggy With It It's that time of year when all around us birds are chirping, bees are buzzing and butterflies are getting jiggy with it. On a recent wander up in the mini-hills the butterflies were out in full force, looking pretty and happily flitting from flower to flower ... [ Read More ]
Stormy Skies
Stormy Skies This week we have had a few off days. The stormy skies have been reminiscent of my days in England, with several weather changes in a day. There have been days that started off well, but turned gray and thundery and there have been days that have started off looking pretty miserable ... [ Read More ]
A Peep In To The Dragon Cave
A Peep Into The Dragon Cave Last week I shared a post on our climb to explore The Dragon Cave And Beyond, and whilst there were no dragons to be found (believe me I looked!) the inside of the cave was pretty spectacular. I have no idea how old the caves are, but it is obvious by the formations ... [ Read More ]
It’s Transition Time!
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Walk, Walk, Walk, Walk, Walk
Walk This post was going to be simply titled 'walk', but then that irritating ear worm of a song called 'Work' - by Rhianna (not forgetting Drake - that for anyone who doesn't realize, is not a male duck!) popped into my head, and I found myself exchanging the only audible word in the song, for ... [ Read More ]