Valentine Lysikatos, Erich Carey
Valentine Michael Lysikatos and Erich Collins Carey are to be married Sunday evening by the Rev. Michael Kolias at Holy Apostles Greek Orthodox Church in Tolo, Greece. On Sept. 27, the Rev. Peter DeSanctis, a Roman Catholic priest, is to lead a blessing ...
Ancient Greece
The term Ancient, or Archaic, Greece refers to the time three centuries before the classical age, between 800 B.C. and 500 B.C.—a relatively sophisticated period in world history. Archaic Greece saw advances in art, poetry and technology, but most of all ...
Always Look UP
Land of Sunflowers I don't know where to begin ... Bulgaria is amazing. There is so much here ... history, 6000 years to be exact ... food, delicious ... beaches, amazing, weather, hot, hot, hot ... cost, cheap ... 9 of us went out to a restaurant and we paid, including alcohol it came to $NZ78 appr ...
Baked Feta
Feta cheese is one of my favourite cheeses. It's great both raw and cooked but cooked is different. It somehow enhances the salty, tangy flavour. Many years ago, when in Greece I had a starter of baked feta cheese. It arrived pretty much like this and I've always wanted to recreate it at home but ha ...
Greece!
As a Greek, leaving Greek food off my food blog is apparently just as bad as being single after 30. This is one of my favorite easy meals to make. It is one I've been able to keep it on my menu through all the financial highs and lows and it nearly always draws compliments. Spanikopita! I realize th ...
Bottlenose bowriding
A bottlenose dolphin bowrides a sailing boat approaching the port of Galaxidi. (Photo by S. Bonizzoni, Gulf of Corinth, Greece)
No dolphin is an island
Three bottlenose dolphins surface near the small island of Agios Dimitrios. (Photo by S. Bonizzoni, Gulf of Corinth, Greece)
Days about 24 August 2014
Sunday Sunrise (Stuttgart) 8:23 in the evening, daylight plundered at 6:30 in the morning, sunset 13 hours and 53 minutes, 34 KW 236 days waning moon, Rome conquered and, to blame for the plague, a non-aggression pact, crosswalk introduced, H-bomb in the South Pacific, Birthday: Yasser Arafat, wante ...
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Preview
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup logo http://www.interbasket.net/news/wp-content/ uploads/FIBA-World-Cup-2014.jpg Top Teams 1. United States (Group C) - The USA may not have global icons in LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Kevin Durant but they still have the most talented squad in the whole tournament. ...
2nd Day- Santorini
We slept well and had a nice buffet breakfast at the hotel. Really enjoyed the Greek yogurt. I watched people put granola, fruit and honey on it. It was delicious that way. The Gate 1 tour representative told us we could take the city bus around the island. So we asked the hotel where to find the bu ...
Renowned Lexicographer and Philologist Emmanuel Kriaras Dies at 107
Renowned lexicographer and philologist Emmanuel Kriaras died of a heart-attack on Friday at his home in Thessaloniki, Greece. At 107 years old, Kriaras, was one of Greece’s most distinguished elders. Kriaras was a professor emeritus at the School of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessalo ...