Haven in Aegina for Endangered Species
There is a cormorant standing on my feet! Oh, yes, he is from the Wildlife Hospital down the road.
Homage to the Queen City
It is not just Constantinople; it is also Istanbul, a city of mixed, mainly Oriental, origin with a touch of Levantine flair.
The Hot Little Dutch Girl Issue
There she is in the picture on the tin of Nounou condensed milk in her
Aman, Aman
Two musical traditions came together in the late 19th and early 20th century. One developed in the teke, the other in the cafe aman. A unique musical style was horn: the rebetiko
Greece’s Heritage in Odessa
Five years ago, the house of the Philiki Etairia in the Black Sea port of Odessa, was being used as a rubbish dump; its historical importance forgotten until, by chance, a local Greek spotted an inbuilt inscription.
The Goatmen (and Women) of Skyros
Away from the mainland compulsion to change and conform, some special customs have been preserved on Skyros. Goat dancing or Dionysiac cult?
The Macedonian Tangle
The EC seems reluctant to enter into the dialectical arguments of Greece and the self-proclaimed republic of Macedonia. Matters appear to be sapping Slavic resistance.
“Sky” is the Limit
In ancient times the slopes of Mount Hymettus buzzed with industrious bees which collected the most famous honey of antiquity. Today, the summits still buzz, but with the hundreds of radio transmission stations, many of which are producing things not so sweet – especially as far as the government is concerned.
King Priam’s Vanished Treasure
The sudden appearance under the archaeologists’ spade of a golden hoard at Hissarlik in Turkey in 1871 astonished the world. Its equally sudden disappearance when the Red Army occupied Berlin in 1945 has mystified it ever since. Perhaps Boris Yeltsin holds the key to this intriguing cultural enigma.
Leoforos Vassilissis Sofias
The road which Roman governors, Turkish voivodes and Greek industrial magnates took to their villas in Kifissia and across which 17N terrorists not long ago lobbed a missile at the local EC headquarters, Queen Sofias Boulevard, remains the noblest thoroughfare of Athens.