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Delayed postcards to self from the Mani.
Mining the Diaries 88: Greece Liakoto Apartments, Kardamyli, Greece, 15th May 2014 Part of the enduring legacy of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s life is his house at Kalamitsi, just south of Kardamili, widely considered to be one of the great writers’ … Continue reading
Mining the Diaries 77: Greece Stone House, Kardamyli, Wednesday 9th June 2010 Morning. Still, silent. Sun breasting the Taygetos woke dormant cicadas. Today we planned to walk to the church at Agia Sophia, which we can see high up overlooking … Continue reading
Stone House, Kardamili, 10th July 2007 We set off at 7.15 after an early breakfast and headed south to Areopolis, then onward into the Deep, Mesa, Mani with Patrick Leigh Fermor (Mani – Travels in the Southern Peloponnese, 1958) as … Continue reading
Final late postcards to self from the Mani.
Further delayed postcard to self. Cheese pie at the Kalamaki souvlaki restaurant. Spinich pie and zucchini pie earlier in the week.
‘It is odd that an antipodean tree, the eucalyptus, unknown before the voyages of Captain Cook, should look so beautiful and appropriate along many a Peloponnesian road. I think they unconsciously suggest the dream vegetation in the imaginary classical landscapes … Continue reading
Collared dove Streptopelia decaocto, my daily 6.00 am alarm call in Kardamili.
‘Totem poles are monumental carvings, a type of Northwest Coast art, consisting of poles, posts or pillars, carved with symbols or figures.’ No carving on this pole, just reminders of analogue messaging for the digital age.
I was due to fly to Greece for a week in the Mani at Kardamili yesterday, but it became a pandemic victim. Tom Sawford’s excellent web site dedicated to Patrick Leigh Fermor, patrickleighfermor.org, reminded me that my departure would have … Continue reading
Joan Leigh Fermor as a photographer, as opposed to a handmaid to male writers, has long been something of an enigma: the claims made for the quality of her work were hardly borne out by its limited publication during her … Continue reading