One of the major drawbacks to living on an island paradise is getting off island and back again with manageable luggage. Karin and I used to travel with at least two gigantic bags each when leaving for months at a time. But now the decreased airline allowances and increased charges for overages have severely hampered our ability to bring back necessities such as peanut butter and maple syrup. See Back on Paros
This week the travel search site Skyscanner.net highlighted a potential solution to packing light: Nakation. That is travel to clothing optional or naturalist locations. They published a survey that indicates 2% of their respondents booked a naked vacation just to avoid paying hefty baggage charges.
We do live simply here on Paros. Maybe we should carry it a strip, I mean a step, further.
If you are a true Paro-phile you will enjoy watching this video for the high quality video of Paros scenery. Warning: it is over 20 minutes long.
It reminds me of watching an old Madonna movie, Body of Evidence, because it was full of scenes from our home town of Portland, Oregon.
Anyway this video was done by a group of students from the School of Informatics of Indiana University. Their objective was to document the connection between agriculture and tourism on the island of Paros.
Search this blog for more of my comments about the food and drink of Paros. Now my slogan of Do it better on Paros can be Eat better on Paros!
Φαγητό του Παρελθόντος: Τροφή για το Μέλλον / Food of the Past: Nourishment for the Future from Parosweb on Vimeo.
The two photos here came from Tony McCarthy who lives in Waterford, Ireland and visits Paros often. For more photos including our former house and store please go to Chuck and Claire’s European Adventures
There is more about Chuck and Claire on Paros Here
And more about our Irish connection: Naoussa on Arthur’s Day
and Irish Women with Foreign Partners
Not quite to the day, but last July I started looking for a new template in order to do a major up date to my major web site, www.ParosParadise.com
Today it was with great trepidation that I pushed the Publish button to upload the new 50+ page site. Wonder of wonders, it worked without a hitch—that I know of, touch wood.
True I did no work on the project between November 2009 and May 2010, but it has been my major focus over the past few weeks. I now have a modern site with much more emphasis on photos of the Greek islands.
It is not yet complete, of course a good web site never is, as I have a punch list of at least 50 items that still need updating and improving. Most of the content was just cut and pasted from the old site. Please notify me of any errors or glitches that you see as I might not notice them.
My next focus is to see if my up-dating eliminates the dreaded Google Page Rank 0 that I received two years ago after many years as a PR 3 and 4. Also, I hope to blog more often . . .
This is just one example of the type of quality events held on Paros each summer.
“Vassilis Tsabropoulos belongs to the elite of European piano soloists. He has given piano recitals in international centres of Europe and America, participating in important orchestras with renowned conductors.”
However, what makes this concert outstanding is the location: an open air theatre at the beach! Its all in the atmosphere of a Greece idyll.
Greekophiles are all familiar with Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis as well as the annoying little ditty played on many sites. Play Nothing against the music, I like Mikis Theodorakis, just not while trying to gather info from a web page.
Now the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum in Myrtia, Crete, near Iraklion has opened a permanent exhibition on Nikos Kazantzakis. He lived a fascinating life so I am sure this museum would be worth a visit.
While I found Zorba the Greek a great read with insight to Cretan culture, most of Kazantzakis’ literature is heavy going. For a quick and easy lesson buy the video. Cheers.
