It’s been a busy Christmas break. We’ve had a lot of running around, looking at furniture, and cleaning the house (which we’ve taken to calling Wuthering Heights because it’s up on a hill and is very windy), but somehow I’ve managed to type up the rest of my novel notebook, and even do some writing. [...]
Archive for December, 2006
Christmas in Crete
Posted in Greece, Photographs on Sunday, December 31, 2006 | 2 Comments »
The Eternal Tourist, the Eternal Emigrant
Posted in Favourites, Greece, Origins, Photographs on Thursday, December 28, 2006 | 5 Comments »
If there is a single reason why I’m living in Greece today, it may be because, about 120 years ago, next to a river in Ethiopia, a shutter opened in a camera for a fraction of a second and allowed the light to reach some film.
I don’t remember how I discovered Arthur Rimbaud. I do [...]
Talking to myself
Posted in ESL/EFL on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Inevitably there comes a time in any teacher’s life when they feel that they’re talking to a bunch of people who aren’t listening.
Last weekend I was on a bus to Kallithea and I saw a student I had two or three years ago. His name was Kostas and he worked, if I remember correctly, in [...]


