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 ]
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 Flashback Of Summer Photo
A Flashback Of Summer Photo This week seems to have passed in a blur. I'm not sure how or why it was just one of those weeks that I've not even looked at my camera. The card was still in my laptop from last weekend. Not wise as you never know when you may want to grab the camera for a quick photo ... [ Read More ]
ET’s Distant Cousin
ET's Distant Cousin At the moment one of my 'must do' tasks is to go through my camera SD card and either delete or save photos. You know what it's like? Too many photos taken and not enough time to sort through them. I did go through a stage of transferring photos to sort into desktop folders, ... [ Read More ]
Days Are Shortening
Days Are Shortening That's a bit of an obvious statement really considering the time of year. All summer I've managed to take the dogs for weekend walks. I don't usually work Saturday and Sunday mornings and if I do it's only later. Which has made it perfect for walking the dogs and avoiding the ... [ Read More ]
Mighty Oleander Hawk Moth
Mighty Oleander Hawk Moth Moths are up there with spiders and locusts when it comes to my unease of them. My fear of spiders is totally irrational, but it's something that if I focus (and don't turn my back on it) I can overcome. My unease around moths, locusts and grasshoppers stems from their ... [ Read More ]
Lagana & Kalamaki Beach- Through My Lensball
Lagana & Kalamaki Beach - Through My Lensball Last week I managed to have a day off midweek to spend with my sister and her family. Knowing they wouldn't be around early I took advantage and headed to the Lagana & Kalamaki beach with my lensball in hand (or pocket). It's something I've ... [ Read More ]
Navagio Beach
Navagio Beach Last weekend we made like tourists for a few hours. A childhood friend of my husband and his wife popped over for three days. Where did they come from? South Africa! It wasn't quite as mad as it sounds as they were in Portugal having a big family reunion and thought as they were over ... [ Read More ]
Blood Moon
Blood Moon I know the internet has been flooded with photos of the blood moon that happened on Friday night, but I couldn't, not share mine too. Last Friday evening I'd met up with friends for a quiet meal to mark a birthday. As we were leaving the restaurant the lunar eclipse was ... [ Read More ]
Shooting From The Hip
Shooting From The Hip At the moment niggly hips are preventing me from running so in a bid to maintain a certain level of fitness I've taken to walking around route from Lagana to Kalamaki and back down the beach. It's not far to walk, measuring just under 5km, but when early evening temperatures ... [ Read More ]
Burned Out Old Car
Burned Out Old Car During the week I'd been messing around with the monochrome setting on the camera and thought it would be fun to see if I could get a half decent photograph using the setting. Black and white photographs do have their appeal and some are quite stunning. When the right subject is ... [ Read More ]
Leaf Eating Wasp
Leaf Eating Wasp Last Sunday I had these Sunday photos all ready to use. And then life got in the way (in a good way) of me writing the post. What it has meant though is that this week I've not had to think too much about My Sunday Photo! Yay! It's been too hot and to busy to think too hard, so ... [ Read More ]
True Blue
True Blue I've been sat here for I don't know how long trying to come up with a suitable title for this photo. Sometimes titles just come to mind in a flash and at others they just elude. Or is that just me? Last Sunday the Zakynthos Walking Group met up for the last walk of the 'winter'. It was ... [ Read More ]
Hiking In The Peloponnese Part 3 & A Trip To Nafplio
Hiking In The Peloponnese The funniest thing happened... This post initially went out unfinished, due to scatterbrain here scheduling it and not having time to finish it. All sorted now though. This is the third and final part of my hiking in the Peloponnese posts... "Yay!" I hear you cry. "How ... [ Read More ]
At Last, I Have My Crystal Ball
At Last, I Have My Crystal Ball As a child, I was fascinated with crystal balls. Smooth and magical, I wondered if it was really possible to see what the future held by just looking into one. I'm now really quite grateful that isn't the case, I'm not sure I really want to know what life is going to ... [ Read More ]
Our Hiking Weekend In The Peloponnese Part 2
Hiking Weekend In The Peloponnese Last week I shared a post covering the first two days of our hiking weekend in the Peloponnese with Greece On Foot. This week I'm sharing part two. Yay! Last year I never got around to writing any subsequent posts to the first, so this year I'm determined to share ... [ Read More ]
A Weekend Of Hiking In The Peloponnese
A Weekend Of Hiking In The Peloponnese Last year a few of us from the Zakynthos Walking Group spent a weekend of hiking in the Peloponnese with Greece On Foot, staying in the quaint coastal village of Tyros. It was such a good weekend we decided it would be criminal not to do it again, so last ... [ Read More ]
Common Blue Butterfly Tickles Me Pink
Common Blue Butterfly Tickles Me Pink Last weekend a group of us from the Zakynthos Walking Group were on the mainland for a few days of hiking in the Peloponnese. It was a wonderful weekend with, as you can imagine, plenty of photo opportunities. As a challenge and a way of learning, I decided ... [ Read More ]
Mirrored
Mirrored It's that time of year when everywhere we look there seems to be new life. It's something I'm sure none of us gets sick of seeing. Back along I shared a photo of a newborn goat still attached to it's Mum, I'm sure that goat is twice the size by now. These baby goats are a bit older and ... [ Read More ]