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It’s all about discovering! Discovering culture, history, beautiful landscapes and the heritage of the Aegean Sea. Trail running, bike tours, hiking in the mountains, a new, completely unknown Greek World.
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Phaistos Disk

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Secret Life of Cicada

MARCH 24, 2021

Seal of Pylos

MARCH 25, 2021

Glistrokoumaria

JUNE 24, 2021

Olympus Mythical Trail

Somewhere in this region I am overwhelmed by this strange feeling sometimes referred to as “runner's high”. As if I was running completely effortlessly and had the impression that I could do it forever...

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Giorgio de Chirico

Pelion Little Train

A few days ago, in the middle of the Pelion Peninsula, in an olive grove on the steep slope of the Centaur Mountains, I found the tracks of a forgotten narrow-gauge railway. In any case, it seemed to be forgotten. The grasses grew between the rails, the trees and bushes bent over the line of the absent carriages, and the surface on which the wheels usually roll did not shine in the sun - deep red rust is always a sign of oblivion.

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Blade Runner

on Peloponnese

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Places

Olympus

Peloponnese

Pindus

Crete

Phaistos Disk

The most interesting thing in the whole story, however, is not whether the disc is authentic or not, what is written on it, and whether it is actually an inscription or some other kind of symbols. The most interesting thing is what makes it evoke so many emotions? Why are letters from various enthusiasts coming to the museum’s address almost every day, trying to read the “inscription” on the disk and sending ever different versions of the hymn to Mother Earth or other possible gods and goddesses?

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Stories

Eternal life of cars on Corfu

An integral part of the Corfu landscape are abandoned cars. Although “abandoned” is actually not the best word. It suggests that someone carelessly left the car in a random place – and this is certainly not the point. On Corfu, old cars are ubiquitous, but they do not stand at random places. Of course, I’m thinking about vehicles that will never go anywhere. The owners left them on the side of the road, in an olive grove, in an old garage or at the top of the mountain letting them fall apart and return to where they belong, i.e. to mother nature.
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Blade Runner on Peloponnese

That day I wanted to cross the mountains. Not high. Separating the central part of the Peloponnese from the eastern coast. It was in the second week of my journey around the great, mulberry-leaf shaped, Greek peninsula. I had over 1000 km in my legs. Countless bays and sea views under my eyelids, the memory of a few Venetian forts and many old towns, located on such steep slopes that some houses grow on the roofs of others. I was constantly reliving the endless serpentine roads and all the shades of sunrises and sunsets that I saw every day. I thought that little could surprise me anymore.
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Seal of Pylos

It is May 2015. The archaeological site of Nestor’s Palace in the southwestern Peloponnese, 15 km from the modern town of Pylos on the shores of the Gulf of Navarino. The rocky island of Sfakteria and several smaller ones, the site of naval battles one from the Peloponnesian War in the 5th century BC and a second from the time of the Greek Revolutionary War in the early nineteenth century, great Italian influence in the area. Nestor’s Palace a bit inland, discovered in 1939, thanks to the guidelines taken from Homer’s Iliad, because Nestor is a literary character (but it is possible that also real).
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Zvara

In dancing there is always an awareness of a broader and deeper background than that provided by everyday events. Through dance, life becomes something special: it awakens in the human soul a cheerful sense of freedom and a blissful awareness of some overwhelming energy that seems to float us in the air.

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labirynth

Ithaka

By C. P. Cavafy

Translated by Edmund Keeley

As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon - don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.

Itaka

By C. P. Cavafy

Translated by Edmund Keeley

As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon - don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.

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