• Beyond the Islands

    Greece, far from the islands, is often a revelation. We get rid of the clichés, we forget the crowds and sometimes… we even get away from the earthquakes and first of all from the disastrous din of mass tourism. As for example in Thessaly, my homeland, which is more in the middle of winter.

  • My book newly published

    At the end of the year 2024, I have just published in Greek and with Stamoulis publishing in Thessaloniki, my essay on contemporary history: “The daily life of Greek soldiers during the First World War and the Greco-Turkish War in Asia Minor (1917-1922)”, a work in the series “Texts and Studies” under the aegis of the Philological Historical Folkloric Association FILOS of Trikala – Φιλολογικός Ιστορικός Λογοτεχνικός Σύνδεσμος Τρικάλων.

  • Deep Thessaly

    In Greece, in the heights of recent years, goats have become increasingly rare, as have cattle. This is the almost new situation in Western Thessaly, on the Pindus massif as well as on the plains. And as for men… Greek land!

  • The King’s Daughter

    Once upon a time there lived a king on his island, Sýrna, also referred to as Ágios Ioánnis on some nautical charts. His kingdom then extended over this long rock in the Aegean Sea, about 11 km², measuring 4 km long and 2.5 km wide, as well as the three nearby rocky islets.

  • Shipwrecks

    There are these events that make history, then dates that become events. Their scope, sometimes close to the frightening, it puts to the test our very capacity to store the memory of facts. However, man is formed by his memory, most frequently that of tragedies, like this dark day of December 8 for Greece and more especially for Crete.

  • The Other Great War

    In Greece and the Balkans, the memory of the Great War is first and foremost synonymous with its essentially Macedonian front, when it is not erased by the memory of later conflicts… or future ones, depending on your point of view.