Corfu, Little Australia, Eucalyptus Trees. Corfu Down Under?

 

Greece, Donkeys and Mules, Zagori, Corfu, Hydra

Vitsa, Zagori. Corfu-Igoumenitsa Ferry. Two poems from Corfu Blues

Revisiting two poems from my 2006 collection.

Visa, Zagori, En Chora Vezitsa, Epirus, Greece

Enjoying Nature while staying safe! Maria Vasdeki (on the left) welcomes everyone warmly to En Chora Vezitsa in Vitsa. Fantina Kardaki (rt.) has been a regular visitor from Corfu for over 35 years.

Details:

https://vezitsa-zagori.com/


A village beloved by young and young, Greeks and foreign visitors alike.

A highly recommended hotel and restaurant - outstanding hospitality.

Lawrence Durrell. Kindle e-book biography. US editions of his books

Ian MacNiven's biography of Lawrence Durrell is now available as a Kindle e-book

UK: 

https://amazon.co.uk/Lawrence-Durrell-Biography-Ian-MacNiven-ebook/dp/B089LQBF4Z…

US: 

https://amazon.com/Ian-S-MacNiven-ebook/dp/B089LQBF4Z/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=MacNiven%2C+Durrell&qid=1597933221&sr=8-1

"Lawrence Durrell, the oversexed, bad boy of mid-20th-century British letters is treated somewhat gingerly by biographer Ian S. MacNiven".

Many of Lawrence Durrell's books are available in US Kindle editions (Open Road Media):

https://openroadmedia.com/contributor/lawrence-durrell


Check also the Durrell paperback books published by Colenso Books in the UK.

Sotiris Dimitriou, Greek Writer. Δημητρίου, Σωτήρης

Sotiris Dimitriou

A note - to read more of his work

http://www.gbip.gr/author/1748

"His novel May Your Name Be Blessed was published in English (2000) by the University of Birmingham Press, translated by Leo Marshall, who was honored for this translation with the TLS Translation Prize."

Hard to find!

I now have two of his novels in Greek.

The Bridge of Arta - Της Άρτας το γεφύρι

An appealing version of the folk-ballad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZgHtPRyG20

Masked in the mountains

Ο ψηλός Άγγλος!

Our friend Fantina

Vitsa, August 15, Name Day of Maria

Dormition Of The Virgin Mary Orthodox Church, Vitsa, Ioannina,

Outdoor service in the village square

 

Red Swing, White Lilies

Alas, no one here to play on it...

 

White lilies for consolation...

 

 

Fifty-one years ago...August 1969; British Council, London

Fifty-one years ago, in August 1969, I started working for The British Council, at 11 Portland Place (opposite the BBC). I was amused to find the old programmes below. N.B., I didn't write the promotional blurb! These were voluntary evening stints at the Overseas Students Centre, not part of the job description at the English Language Teaching Institute (ELTI). I worked at Portland Place for one year, then went for further TV production training at C.E.T.O,  Nuffield Lodge, Regent's Park.

(above, the old bookplate logo)

RIBA photo of Students Centre:

https://www.architecture.com/image-library/RIBApix/image-information/poster/british-council-students-centre-and-flats-later-ambika-house-911-portland-place-marylebone-london/posterid/RIBA104974.html

11 Portland Place, photos (architecture.com):

At C.E.T.O.
(below)

C.E.T.O., Nuffield Lodge, Regent's Park, 1970

After that, I followed the example of Arthur Rimbaud

and disappeared into distant parts,

first of all to Ethiopia...

Rimbaud's House (?), Harar:

From Cadences, Cyprus

Looking for Rimbaud in Har(r)ar:

"Je reviendrai, avec des membres de fer, la peau sombre, l'œil furieux "

Une Saison en enfer

French Mission:

Filming in Addis:

Lake Langano, Ethiopia

...then to Kenya