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 ]
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 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Going, Going, Gone…
Going, Going, Gone... Could well be in reference to my sanity, but it's not. Childhood and all that in between stuff is one of those phases that it's not until you are older you realise just how quickly it passes by. I know that when you are in the midst of it it feels like it goes on forever ... [ Read More ]
Path Clearing Mission At Elies, Zakynthos
Path Clearing Mission At Elies Oh my! I never thought I'd get this post started let alone finished! Last Thursday a small group of us went on a path clearing mission at Elies, which is at the top end of Zakynthos. Despite my initial concern that I really didn't have the time to spare, it was just ... [ Read More ]