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Continue reading →: From the Mountains to the Coast
Monday morning came and it was time to move on out of the Pindos mountains. I’ve been able to stay about as long as I had hoped. A couple of weeks ago were the frequent thunderstorms that mainly came at night, but made the roads the following days treacherous. Now,…
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Continue reading →: Rotting In The Sun
Mexico 2023 Though set in Mexico City, this is in effect a Chilean film, with its main stars, Sebastián Silva and the brilliant Carolina Saavedra, hailing from there. Silva also directs and wrote the script. The premise may not seem immediately appealing.. an artist with a mental block, without success…
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Continue reading →: An Impromptu Mushroom FestivalRoja is confused. Firstly because of the amount of cats and their status in society. He gets the usual attention from neighbouring tables at cafes and bypassers, cats get more. He learnt a few weeks ago that here is not the place to chase them; onlookers give a disapproving shake…
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Continue reading →: Suddenly by Isabelle Autissier
translated from the French by Gretchen Schmid Autissier is one of the most famous sportswomen in France, having sailed around the world four times and has broken several records, the first woman to circumnavigate solo in a round the world race and was twice rescued from the mountainous seas that…
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Continue reading →: For Whom The Bell TollsThe road from Ambelakiotissa to Ano Chora is typical of what I have been driving for the last few weeks as I have meandered from north to south down the spine of the Pindos mountains. 10 kilometres took 45 minutes, initially down steep-sided hairpins 350 metres vertical descent to the…
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Continue reading →: Le Samouraï
or, The Godson – 1967 Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and starting Alain Delon This classic Gallic noir inspired many directors around the world in the following decade. Simply put, it is the journey of a hired killer after a botched job. A plot used many times before, but Melville’s approach,…
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Continue reading →: Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews
Second time of reading this.. Ranked by many of the media as Crews’s masterpiece, I appreciated this greatly, but prefer his novels. Some say to read this first, as an introduction to Crews’s books, but I’m going to disagree with that also.. better to read it last, and it gives…
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Continue reading →: Meeting More MonksI expected a quiet day today, a chance to catch up on a bit of reading and a few other bits of administration. In the end, it was anything but quiet. This village, Ambelakiotissa, more than most, suits a walking circuit, set as it is over a height difference of…
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Continue reading →: The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore
This 1933 novel, which amazingly lay dormant, out of print, for more than 40 years, concerns Bertrand Caillet, the unwanted result of a lecherous and sinister priest with a murky and wolfish background raping a 14 year old French peasant girl in the early 1850s. Caillet is raised by Aymar…
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Continue reading →: Villages of the Kravara – AmbelakiotissaTemperatures up high at this time of year are difficult to predict. At 10 pm last night, up at Veluchio, at 1850 metres, it was 3C, but it didn’t get any colder. With the sun up at 7:30, it had warmed to 9C by 8am, and the van solar certainly…
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Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
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