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 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
The Group Carry On Walking: Agalas to Keri Round Walk
The Group Carry On Walking Last week the Zakynthos Walking Group was we know it came to an end. After years of planning Sunday walks, Derek our half man, half mountain goat has had to step down and it was very sad indeed. The future of the walking group stood in the balance as there were big ... [ Read More ]
Braving The Cold… For The Dogs
Braving The Cold... For The Dogs Oh my! The things we do for our dogs! Yesterday morning it was so cold it took me five minutes to defrost the windscreen. Five minutes with the blower going and using water from the hose. It was bitterly cold. I put the dogs in the car waiting for a sign that ... [ 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 ]
Intrepid Down! Intrepid Down!
Intrepid Down! Who says island life isn't exciting? No one?... Okay. Well, in case you did imagine that living on an island was quiet and unexciting, I'm going to share with you an image that may rock your world... Or it may not. I'm part of a small, but a fun group that we named The Intrepid ... [ Read More ]
Welcome To My Web
Welcome To My Web... Said the spider to the butterfly. This scene was spotted by some fellow walkers at the start of last Sunday's walk. What I found most amazing about this scene wasn't the fact that the spider was making easy work of the butterfly, but the fact that the butterfly seemed to ... [ Read More ]
A Stunning Dawn
A Stunning Dawn Did anyone else see it? Did Saturday start with a stunning dawn where you were? I was sat drinking my coffee, trying to fool the dogs into thinking we weren't going for a walk just yet... Does anyone else do that too? If our dogs so much as get a whiff of a walk they start ... [ Read More ]
Fairy Dining Room
Fairy Dining Room A couple of weeks ago Zakynthos was hit by a mini-cyclone and this week we've had a bit of a bone rattler of an earthquake. The earthquake caught us by surprise (as they do) and has meant I didn't get to do some of the things I planned. Getting out and about with the camera for ... [ 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 ]
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 ]