My friend Edith supported the arriving boat people in Lesbos with a group of volunteers for two weeks. She wrote an experience report that gets under your skin! I am often asked whether we also have refugees in Ikaria. As I mentioned in my last post: We have no refugees, for the simple reason: [...]
It's only gradually that I realize the power and reach of this website! It is my most useful tool and my strongest weapon in a crisis. It all started quite harmlessly. Since 1986 I lived in Ikaria, in a 300-year-old stone house, without electricity and without running water. A room for the whole family, [...]
I'm a little out of practice. It's been a long time since I wrote love letters and I certainly don't have any experience making my love public. But now I have to do it. I've been in love for a long time and now the moment has come for me to publicly declare myself, [...]
The upcoming elections are in their final stages Anything but edifying! There is so much dirty laundry being done in the Greek (and international) press at the moment that it is difficult to maintain an objective opinion. Greek, international, state and private broadcasters, newspapers, radio, networks, all seem to want [...]
While browsing on the internet I came across this somewhat older but nonetheless exciting and still current article about Ikaria. I was amazed when I even found myself mentioned by name! Alex von Roll gives a nice insight into the living conditions of the Ikariotes, the role of women, the [...]
Ursula Kastanias – bridge builder between two cultures Sunday, April 27, 2014, 11:30 a.m., Radio SRF 1 Link to the program Where love leads: 30 years ago she packed her suitcase and emigrated from St. Gallen to the Greek island of Ikaria. The island is as big as Lake Constance [...]
It's three in the morning, I can't sleep, the rain is pounding on our tiled roof. Tomorrow, or let's say today, is Isidore's name day and therefore also his Panigyri, up in the mountains near the small hermitage. For us, this panigyri always ushers in summer. It is the first [...]
Location: Erifi - Rahes Photo and copyright by George Tsimpidis 2012 The Milky Way in the narrower sense is the band-shaped brightening in the night sky, which spans the celestial sphere around a great circle as a prominent plane of symmetry of the Milky Way system. In a broader sense, [...]
Hello, a wonderful idea to show photos of Ikaria. I have a lot of them, but I particularly like this one. The rock is somewhere in the Karkinagri/Vrakades/Mavriannos triangle, if I remember correctly. But maybe you have already discovered it? Greetings from Belgium, Brigitte
Who doesn't know them, the Koren (κόρη - girl, virgin), the beautiful, marble virgins of the Parthenon, the Caryatids. As symbols of beauty of their time, they stand in the Acropolis area and carry the Erechtheion. The Erechtheion is best known for its vestibule, which is supported by six larger-than-life girl figures instead of [...]
