Tag:Mytilini
Stories Mytilini – the olive mountain Down memory lane – A story about being in a magical place on the island of Mytilini and harvesting olives in a traditional way Harvesting the olives Ana is a friend of ours and her roots lie in Mytilini. She has a family house on the island and an olive grove. Whenever possible, she travels to the island in December to harvest the olives in the traditional way and, also traditionally, uses a donkey […]
Country Series Greece This is the first publication in our country series. Our intention is to share with you in one page our relation with the pertinent country. Our relationship with Greece Our first introduction to Greece was in 1985 when we spent a holiday on Crete. We didn’t know at that time that years later we would live and work in Greece. From 1993 to 1999 we lived in Kifissia a suburb of Athens and Adriaan worked in Piraeus. […]
