The Compleat Traveller

I have already written about the Mother's Day celebrations I attended on the Greek island of Ikaria during my visit there ove...

Another in my “Irene’s Kitchen” series featuring the Greek Island cooking of my sister, Irene Gevezes. This time Irene is cooking Stuffe...

A month ago, in a post called A Picture Worth a Thousand Words , I wrote about working through my collection of 35,000+ images and video...

River scene, Cambodia If ‘a picture is worth a thousand words,’ then thirty-five thousand pictures must be worth thirty-five million w...

Click to view larger size I almost missed this event last evening, but I just happened to be outside when I noticed the full moon risin...

The Byzantine church of Agia Sophia, at Kampos, Ikaria.   “… never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” ~ from ...

Portrait of Irene by Bill Cook My sister Irene Gevezes has been living on Ikaria, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea for almost 40 years...

Is this the way Greek legends and myths are created? On seeing the stark, forbidding landscape on the southern windswept side of the Aegea...

Waiting for the dance to begin I wonder if the children and adults participating in the Mother’s Day celebrations held in the Ikaria v...

Click on images to view full sized Yesterday, I spent the afternoon in the Ikarian village of Petropouli, near the summit of Mount Athe...

Mount Atheras, the highest point on Ikaria I have written before about the Aegean island, Ikaria, the place from which my parents and ...

Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, New York City Losing my religion? Hardly. More like losing my mojo. After a brief burst of activity t...

~ On Saturday, June 14, 2008, a Festival of Greek Dance was held in the village of Rahes, on the Aegean island of Ikaria, and this film, ...

Victoria Square Fountain, Adelaide ~ For most of my life I have lived in Adelaide, Australia, and although I like to say that Adelaid...

Hard to believe, I suppose, but there it is… my last entry was posted on April 1 (All Fools Day), and despite my best efforts to ignore m...

I caught this villager taking a break (i.e., nodding off), from her crochet work one warm summers afternoon, while visiting the village of ...