We took the bus to Dino and Poppy’s town Orthos. We waited a couple of hours in a café before Poppy came to pick us up. As soon as we arrived at her house Dino, Mom and I took the bus to a beach called Finiki. We had an early supper then went to bedContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time :July 1970: Our Trip to Orthos : Otherworldly and Conservative”
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RKS Wine: Is It Time to Escape Italian Pinot Grigio?
The immensely popular Pinot Grigio Santa Margherita from Italy is a huge seller at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. I seem to face walls of it. I have no idea why it is so popular and at $20.95 given its poor overcropped and dilute quality I just shake my head and say it isContinue reading “RKS Wine: Is It Time to Escape Italian Pinot Grigio?”
Extortion and Robbery on My Hospital Visit
Off today for a 6. A.M appointment for an MRIsmall consolation at least there was no radioactive dyestrapped in like a self harmer at a psychiatric institutea cruel bar on my chin made me mutethis procedure can be a real brutemy parking ticket says thanks for supporting research dreamt up in the hospital marketing departmentContinue reading “Extortion and Robbery on My Hospital Visit“
Travels to a Different Time: July 1970: In Pigadia on Karpathos: The Incredible Friendliness of the Greeks! Getting Invited to Our First Party! Anti-Greek Riot in Toronto
As a 12-year-old my travels have been in the New England States and in Canada. I will say the Greek people are incredibly friendly. Why is this? In many of the smaller cities and towns there are so few tourists I think we are a novelty and Greeks are very proud that we have comeContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: July 1970: In Pigadia on Karpathos: The Incredible Friendliness of the Greeks! Getting Invited to Our First Party! Anti-Greek Riot in Toronto”
Travels to a Different Time: June 1970: The Right Boat Wrong Stop: Putt Putting Along the Coast With Jumping Dolphins (will the Greek adventures ever end?)
We took the ship from Rhodes to the island of Karpathos. We disembarked at what we thought was our destination. We met a couple of Brits named Flick and Bruce kind of hippie types who were travelling with very uncool people like us on deck class. We found rooms at a hotel called the DiafaniContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: June 1970: The Right Boat Wrong Stop: Putt Putting Along the Coast With Jumping Dolphins (will the Greek adventures ever end?)”
Clearing a Pee Path
No I am not mistakenly referring to the rock n roll song “Shaking All Over”but after 60 cms of snow with drifts so big I have to wade waste deep out my front doorits shovel more more morepoor doggie Dylan’s back door and occasional pee path is blocked by a huge driftboth he and IContinue reading “Clearing a Pee Path”
Travels to a Different Time: June 1970: Panormitis, the Incredible Story of Father Gabriel Surviving a Torpedo Attack and an Invitation for Dessert on a Belgian Yacht
Panormitis is a small town on the island of Symi two hours by boat from Rhodes. There is a church there and I think it was a former monastery. We met Father Gabriel upon our arrival and asked for his permission to stay in the old monastery which is a wing with several very simpleContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: June 1970: Panormitis, the Incredible Story of Father Gabriel Surviving a Torpedo Attack and an Invitation for Dessert on a Belgian Yacht”
RKS Film: “The Contrast”: Weak with One Saving Grace
The film “The Contrast” will be released on digital platforms on January 18, 2022. This American film is an adaptation of 1787 Royall Tyler’s “The Contrast” a great favourite of President George Washington. It is about the impending celebration of the marriage of Maria (Joy Villa) to cad and fortune hunter Dimple (Lee Donoghue). TheContinue reading “RKS Film: “The Contrast”: Weak with One Saving Grace”
RKS Film: “Nocturna; The Great Old Man’s Night” (Side A): Perhaps a Different Type of Horror Film? : The Horror of Dementia?
Gonzalo Calzada has a double feature for us. There is “Nocturna Side A The Great Old Man’s Night” and “Nocturna Side B Where the Elephant’s Go to Die”. Side A “The Great Old Man’s Night” seems to have been widely accepted by reviewers as a horror film. Certainly, there are fragments of horror primarily nearContinue reading “RKS Film: “Nocturna; The Great Old Man’s Night” (Side A): Perhaps a Different Type of Horror Film? : The Horror of Dementia?”
Travels to a Different Time: June 24, 1970, Letter From Rhodes from Margaret Mary Stephen to Son Andrew Stephen (travelling deck class with the hippies and eating Chelsea buns aboard the USS Roosevelt)
Dear Andrew: Robert and I have a morning swim each day around 9:30. today We have had our breakfast of orange juice and freshly baked buns from the runny nosed baker down the street from our hotel. They eat loads of bread here with every meal. We were invited on a U.S. aircraft carrier theContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: June 24, 1970, Letter From Rhodes from Margaret Mary Stephen to Son Andrew Stephen (travelling deck class with the hippies and eating Chelsea buns aboard the USS Roosevelt)”
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