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Words of Evangelia Senior

2020-10-10T12:56:25-06:00

128 min read

Words of Evangelia Senior9/21/19Today Evangelia and I sit in the shade of the olive trees sipping iced coffees. “Next year we go to Karditsa together,” she says. “Snap, snap, you can make many photographs.” A nice idea as her entire extended family,

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by Beatrice Hamblett

On the Road and Back

2020-10-10T12:54:47-06:00

350 min read

I am home now back on the island of Skopelos, my base for five months a year. Always, it is good to leave the hotels behind, but alas, the pleasures and freedom of the road—new and old places visited, new friends—too quickly recedes.Thinking back…I

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by Beatrice Hamblett

Mitsos Goes to Jail

2020-10-10T12:53:29-06:00

174 min read

9/15/19On my last visit to Aliveri, September 2019, I stop by Konstandina and Mitsos’s house. They meet me at the gate with bad news: Mitsos has just been arrested for driving without a diploma, a license. “Ah bad, bad news,” he tells me. He plies

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by Beatrice Hamblett

A Great Racket

2020-10-10T12:51:32-06:00

335 min read

I call Marinos this morning to confirm our meeting at the astinomia, the local police. We agreed that I will sell them my old motorbike for 100 euros. That’s what we tell the police, anyway. In reality, it’s a gift from me to them in exchange for

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by Beatrice Hamblett

Thoughts after Three-Day Photo Trip

2020-10-10T12:48:43-06:00

843 min read

Was my three-day photo trip to Aliveri, the mainland Roma settlement, a success? It cost way more than I would have liked and the rental car, a VW Polo that trawled dangerously low like a race car on the Aliveri dirt roads, caused no end of worry

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by Beatrice Hamblett

Words of Evangelia Senior

2020-10-10T12:56:25-06:00

128 min read

Words of Evangelia Senior9/21/19Today Evangelia and I sit in the shade of the olive trees sipping iced coffees. “Next year we go to Karditsa together,” she says. “Snap, snap, you can make many photographs.” A nice idea as her entire extended family,

Read More

by Beatrice Hamblett

On the Road and Back

2020-10-10T12:54:47-06:00

350 min read

I am home now back on the island of Skopelos, my base for five months a year. Always, it is good to leave the hotels behind, but alas, the pleasures and freedom of the road—new and old places visited, new friends—too quickly recedes.Thinking back…I

Read More

by Beatrice Hamblett

Mitsos Goes to Jail

2020-10-10T12:53:29-06:00

174 min read

9/15/19On my last visit to Aliveri, September 2019, I stop by Konstandina and Mitsos’s house. They meet me at the gate with bad news: Mitsos has just been arrested for driving without a diploma, a license. “Ah bad, bad news,” he tells me. He plies

Read More

by Beatrice Hamblett

A Great Racket

2020-10-10T12:51:32-06:00

335 min read

I call Marinos this morning to confirm our meeting at the astinomia, the local police. We agreed that I will sell them my old motorbike for 100 euros. That’s what we tell the police, anyway. In reality, it’s a gift from me to them in exchange for

Read More

by Beatrice Hamblett

Thoughts after Three-Day Photo Trip

2020-10-10T12:48:43-06:00

843 min read

Was my three-day photo trip to Aliveri, the mainland Roma settlement, a success? It cost way more than I would have liked and the rental car, a VW Polo that trawled dangerously low like a race car on the Aliveri dirt roads, caused no end of worry

Read More

by Beatrice Hamblett

Words of Evangelia Senior

2020-10-10T12:56:25-06:00

128 min read

Words of Evangelia Senior9/21/19Today Evangelia and I sit in the shade of the olive trees sipping iced coffees. “Next year we go to Karditsa together,” she says. “Snap, snap, you can make many photographs.” A nice idea as her entire extended family,

Read More

by Beatrice Hamblett

On the Road and Back

2020-10-10T12:54:47-06:00

350 min read

I am home now back on the island of Skopelos, my base for five months a year. Always, it is good to leave the hotels behind, but alas, the pleasures and freedom of the road—new and old places visited, new friends—too quickly recedes.Thinking back…I

Read More

by Beatrice Hamblett

Mitsos Goes to Jail

2020-10-10T12:53:29-06:00

174 min read

9/15/19On my last visit to Aliveri, September 2019, I stop by Konstandina and Mitsos’s house. They meet me at the gate with bad news: Mitsos has just been arrested for driving without a diploma, a license. “Ah bad, bad news,” he tells me. He plies

Read More

by Beatrice Hamblett

A Great Racket

2020-10-10T12:51:32-06:00

335 min read

I call Marinos this morning to confirm our meeting at the astinomia, the local police. We agreed that I will sell them my old motorbike for 100 euros. That’s what we tell the police, anyway. In reality, it’s a gift from me to them in exchange for

Read More

by Beatrice Hamblett

Thoughts after Three-Day Photo Trip

2020-10-10T12:48:43-06:00

843 min read

Was my three-day photo trip to Aliveri, the mainland Roma settlement, a success? It cost way more than I would have liked and the rental car, a VW Polo that trawled dangerously low like a race car on the Aliveri dirt roads, caused no end of worry

Read More

by Beatrice Hamblett

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