The Shipping Gods, who I have mentioned here before, are like their Olympian cousins but not as great and far reaching. They live on an isolated cloud prone island in the south Aegean Sea, north west of Crete and south of the Cyclades, which you may sometimes glimpse from the air as you fly over,…

If you reading this blog from another planet, you may be unaware that the English football team is preparing to take on Italy in the Euro finals. The rest of you will not need telling. As England have progressed through the tournament however, I have had cause to re-examine my relationship with the country of…

Karpathos is a beautiful island, but has many faces, all pointing in different directions, and each one attractive – or otherwise – to different people. Pigadia is not to my taste, Lefkos, especially around the beach, was not built for people like me, but many people take great pleasure in it. It is the north…