Ioannina’s most famous son was not even Greek. But increasing numbers of tourists will be flocking to this lake-side city in western central Greece, where, in the vermin-infested splendour of early 19th-century Epirus, lived one of the most colorful and blood-curdling characters of history and folklore.
Understandably, the foreign resident in Greece seems to have little idea of the various social welfare organizations in Greece. Besides the communication / language difficulties, the Greek social welfare organizations are modest in their approach to the public, avoiding the sometimes aggressive tactics of their counterparts elsewhere in the world.
Every nation has its built-in myths and one of these is that Corfiots are the most musical people of Greece.
One of the more curious assumptions of the civilized mind is that during an uncivilized age there’s no one living in it.
Those who have been losing sleep lately in the occasional but eerie quiet caused by a lull in construction around town may now take heart. Substruction is about to begin!
Visiting the old former Turkish Quarter of Chania is somewhat like moving into the centre of a whirlwind: as one moves away from the edges of the funnel, one increasingly approaches a centre where there is no movement.
They hated each other, and for the best of reasons: money. So much (it could almost be said) for the ancient history of those two small nations whose fortress-sanctuaries, Acropolis and Acrocorinth, were still, on clear days, visible to one another as late as the 1940’s.
When Mayor Skilitsis began to clean up Piraeus some years ago, there were those who complained that the atmosphere of the town would be ruined. It can now be stated, after several years of his administration, that the results are on the whole pleasant.
There recently took place in Eretria a curious spectacle which should be of interest to
Edward Lear has two claims to fame, as the author of nonsense poems and as a landscape artist. His nonsense verse — including the limerick form, which he perfected and made popular — is known and loved wherever English is spoken. To many people, in fact, Lear is known only for his ‘nonsenses’ and it comes as a surprise to learn that they were merely an occasional diversion, and that he was, by profession, an artist who earned his livelihood, at times precariously, as a painter.
