Blogs About Living In Greece
After mentioning Effrosyni Moschoudi and her blog yesterday (here’s the home page link) I thought I’d do a scout around to see what other blogs about living in Greece I could find. I thought this might be of interest to you along with some general images I’ve got in my folder.
I did a generic search via a search engine and found loads of Greek based blogs. I haven’t mentioned the larger, more commercial sites here as they probably don’t need the attention, and you already know about Adriana’s blog from Symi, and my own. Of course you do, you are reading it right now. But here are four others that you might want to look at. If you do, and you post comments or make contact, do tell them that I sent you.
My first problem was to find blogs with up to date content; several at the top of my search results looked promising but had not updated for over a year; so I left them alone. The first one I looked at (that was reasonably up to date; December 2015) looked fine but a pop-up popped-up to tell me there was malicious malware associated with the page. I was still able to view http://bigfatgreekodyssey.com/blog/ though and it is, like Symi Dream, a blog with pictures and text, though not a daily one.
http://momingreecetoday.blogspot.gr/ was next and again it is images and words. I know that sounds pretty obvious, but some blogs these days are image-only blogs. This looks to be a personal blog like mine and goes back to 2012. I was interested to see a post in the archive list called ‘Musicals in Greece’, though the page I found seemed to be all about politics.
http://octopus-in-my-ouzo.blogspot.gr/ An Octopus in My Ouzo was third on my list and again it’s a neatly set out Blogspot style blog with pictures and text. This blog is by Jennifer Barclay who lives on ‘a tiny Greek island’ so is much more in keeping with Symi Dream. But which island? I am assuming Tilos, though it’s not immediately apparent and I may be wrong – no doubt someone will put me, er, straight. A good blog though and very much ‘Up our dromos’ (street) as it’s personal, easy to read, about island life and also publicises books, other blogs and sites you might like to see.
And Jennifer also has another close-to-home blog on her list of handy sites, John Manuel’s Ramblings From Rhodes. http://ramblingsfromrhodes.blogspot.gr/ Very much like our Symi Dream – note the use of the word ‘Rambles’ – except with fewer typos and longer posts perhaps, more informative and with appropriate pjhots (oops) rather than my habit of posting up any old pictures to go with any old ramblings. You can also get hold of John’s life in Greece books via his site links and there is, I believe, a fourth in the series now available.
I hope that’s given you some new ideas for some reading to accompany Symi Dream – not to replace it. Perhaps make yourself a Favourites folder called ‘Greek island blogs’ or some such and, if you find any others that you think our other readers might like to know about, let me know and I’ll mention them here. Now I have to go and do some housework before getting on with a novel. It’s been raining (hard) and some rain came into the porch where Jack had merrily thrown most of his dirt tray content onto the floor during some midnight expedition to find the perfect hole to dig, so there is mud to deal with. I could also do with opening the house up, now the rain has stopped, and letting some air through. Don’t want to get black mould and damp this early in the winter.
Anyway, check the links above, and for a fuller list of other Ex-pat blogs in Greece try http://www.expatsblog.com/blogs/greece and happy reading!
