First the weather report.  Heatwave gone, new heatwave on the way.  Flora and Fauna - So many swallows this year.  It has been many years si...

The Poros Navy Beach Canteen, run by the Navy Training School,  opened for the summer season at the end of June, once all the conscripts had...

  10th day of the heatwave and more to come. It's now uncomfortably hot at night and midday it's scorching. We spent the last 4 days...

Train tracks outside the city of Patras (a bit further north from us) melted and twisted in this heatwave.   Trains have stopped running of ...

  It's hot today.  Very hot.  It was hot yesterday and it will be extremely hot till July 21st and possibly even later in the month.  We...

  The Plumeria is flowering now on the island.  It's gorgeous and the sweet scent is intoxicating. My granddaughters picked some one eve...

These little grey bugs come out in the summer.  Wood lice I think.  They do no harm.  My girls, and their children later, loved giving them ...