This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo shows the sea and sky just after sundown on the Greek island of Skiathos. I found a sense of tranquillity and peace here at that moment. No one else …
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People's Pebbles I’m reposting the introductory paragraph for this series, as it’s been a little while since I posted this. Skip it if you already know the framework. When I’m out and about, whether in urban chaos or rural tranquillity, I’m often attracted by the odd, the misplaced, the unusual, the item that smacks the eye …
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An Odd Plant Pot The Greek island of Kos houses the Asklepieion, an ancient medical centre built to honour the god of health and medicine, Asklepios, following the death of the celebrated ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates. He is remembered as the inspiration for the famous Hippocratic Oath sworn by many doctors. The hospital dates from …
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Walking on the lovely Greek island of Zakynthos, called Zante by the younger generation, in September 2023, we consulted a map I’d bought online for guidance. It took us to places we’d otherwise never have visited. On one of our almost daily walks, we followed the winding roads from our hotel up into the hills, …
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Rhodes and the Sunlit Mediterranean. This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo shows a landlubber’s view of a rough bay on the Greek Island of Rhodes. It’s from October 2017, and I hope it’ll warm the …
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My photos in this continuing series show our beautiful world. Maybe they’ll encourage viewers to help save it from human carelessness. This month’s series is from our stay on the Greek island of Zakynthos. One evening we took a ‘sunset cruise’ on a small boat with about 30 other tourists. The boat was able to …
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My photos in this continuing series show our beautiful world. Maybe they’ll encourage viewers to help save it from human carelessness.This month’s series is from our stay on the Greek island of Zakynthos, where we spent our 35th wedding anniversary. As with most of the Greek islands, tourism has altered the natural landscape a good …
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My photos in this continuing series show our beautiful world. Maybe I can encourage viewers to help save it from human carelessness. I was unable to post one of these for last Saturday. We’d just returned from a two week break from online activity, and also had our ‘Flu and Covid boosters on the Saturday. …
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My photos in this continuing series show our beautiful world. Maybe I can encourage viewers to help save it from human carelessness. Today, brings a photograph of a lone tree standing in arid ground and giving shade for sheep on the Greek island of Rhodes. Our walk, in September 2017, took us from Pefkos to …
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Sunset Over Crete My photos here show how beautiful is our world. I hope to encourage viewers to help save it from our carelessness. Today we bathe under the warm glow of a sunset on the historic Greek island of Crete. It was taken on a spontaneous trip organised by the husband of our hotel …
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The Greek island of Thassos My photos here show how beautiful is our world. I hope to encourage viewers to help save it from our carelessness. This one shows the eroding effect of wave power on the strong rocky cliffs of the Greek island of Thassos over eons. Imagine how much more of this island …
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I share my pictures here to show the beauty of our world, encouraging viewers to take action to save it from the destruction we humans are causing to nature.This one, for the end of the month, displays a tiny uninhabited island in Troulos Bay of the island of Skiathos. The sun was just setting as …
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I share my pictures here to show the beauty of our world, encouraging viewers to take action to save it from the destruction we humans are causing to nature.This was taken at Agistros Bay on the Greek island of Skiathos, a place we walked during May 2022. Many of the beaches were being cleared of …
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I posted an illustrated piece on Medium. If you're a walker, or you're thinking of visiting the Greek island of Skiathos, you might find it interesting. You'll find it here.
Another month closes, ending the meteorological winter of the UK and summoning the sunshine of the coming spring. A welcome change following a time of necessary restriction, incompetent governance, divisive political moves, and threats of war.So I give you a picture of hope for better weather, better places, better times to come. The sunset here …
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