The advantage of corona might be that the Christmas stress for the Christmas Cook might be tempered, because officially you may not cook for grand companies. However, a Christmas Menu still has to be composed, although this corona year it maybe not be as... continue reading
Eating a fig in fact is eating flowers. They can be consumed directly from the tree. But there are also plenty of recipes for dried figs as well as forfresh figs. Not easy to find new recipes, but here is a new one: a refreshing figs-eggs-avocado salad, http://smitakislesvos.com/en/eating-fig-flowers/
Seeing a wall of flames racing towards you and the house, makes your worst nightmare come true. But there was so much luck that day: the house, the animals and everybody were okay after lots of people together with the fire brigade managed to put the fire out: http://smitakislesvos.com/en/1505-2/
A little history of the watermelon and about watermelon phobia: http://smitakislesvos.com/en/kaaarpouououzi/
While Athens builds The Great Walk, straight through the historical center, West-Lesvos also is under the spell of a road-build-fever. The building of the road Kalloni – Sigri has never been progressed so quickly and all other roads are being covered with a new layer of asphalt: http://smitakislesvos.com/en/the-great-drive-2/
In ancient Greece people were entertained with plenty of festivals, which contained sport contests and song festivals. A man that won again and again several famous festivals was Terpander from Antissa, also called The Father of the Greek Music. Continue reading -> http://smitakislesvos.com/en/terpander-from-antissa/
This corona-summer until now has been reigned by clouds and pop-up showers. Even that the famous blue sky is often to be seen and the temperature has finally reached a summerly level, it seems like the weather is also suffering from corona: continue reading -> http://smitakislesvos.com/en/where-is-the-greek-sun/
A temple in the amphitheater of Mytilini? Here a bit more about the Romans who built this temple of Nemesis and their bloody games: Roman games, http://smitakislesvos.com/en/roman-games/
(photo: internet)
In ancient times, when beetroots only grew along the Mediterranean coasts, it were only the leaves that were eaten. Nowadays the leaves are a bit forgotten, even that they can be served in so many tasty dishes: http://smitakislesvos.com/en/beetroot-divorce/
On Lesvos there are all kind of stones: from small colorful pebbles, to enormous rocks, lost in a landscape. A fascinating world, http://smitakislesvos.com/en/the-magical-empire-of-stones/
During this Corona crisis one realizes which people are important in life. In Greece for example those are the also hairdressers. Already in ancient Greece they had an important function. Now that beards and moustaches are back in fashion, also the hairdressers are. Read about a short history of hairdressers: http://smitakislesvos.com/en/a-hairdressers-blues/
The interpretations of the lockdown document and the bans around Greek Easter: http://smitakislesvos.com/en/have-a-b6/
Lesvos has a few cities, now lost forever. By digging in the earth and in old scripts the history revives a bit. But there is also a new city that, because of the virus, is in danger to be forgotten. Continue reading: http://smitakislesvos.com/en/lost-cities/
Lesvos now has been divided into two new municipalities: West Lesvos and Mytilini. West Lesvos should become one big nature park while Mytilini should proclaim itself as a ‘Free State of Refugees’, continue reading ->http://smitakislesvos.com/en/free-state-mytilini/
