As an addendum to my Greek Word 19/2021, γυναικοκτονία, it saddens me to report that yet another woman has been murdered by her ex. This time in Crete. Anyway, my latest choice is: κιοτεύω – kiotevo – to shrink from, to balk at, to be cowardly or to behave in a cowardly way. It was... Continue Reading →
Irish Music Scene & Life in Northern Greece 21/2021
Monday, 25th October 21: This afternoon Fofi Gennimata, the leader of KINAL (formerly PASOK), died. She was relatively young, a month shy of her 57th birthday. Her father, Georgios Gennimatas, also died young, being only 54 when cancer took him back in 1994. Georgios Gennimatas’s main achievement lay in setting up the National Health System... Continue Reading →
Irish Music Scene & Life in Northern Greece 20/2021
What a joy it was to write in my last post about something other than Covid but, as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. Vaccination uptake is well below the hopes of the authorities, particularly in Northern Greece. In a small town called Drama, only about 40% of the adult... Continue Reading →
Greek Word 20/2021
γούβα – ghouva – a hole, depression or sinkhole. Last week it rained most of the time. It does not take long for the roads, even main roads, to fill up with water. The incident in the article below happened on Ethnikis Antistaseos (National Resistance Street) the main east-west artery if you are driving into... Continue Reading →
Irish Music Scene & Life in Northern Greece 19/2021
Success and lift-off. The inaugural Dubliner Session kicked off around 5pm on Sunday, 17th October. It was great to see a full pub. We were seated in a corner and, true to session “format”, we were facing in all directions. I think I was right to make sheet music available as several of the participants... Continue Reading →
Greek Word 19/2021
γυναικοκτονία – yinekoktonia – the killing of women: femicide, feminicide or uxoricide. A depressing choice of word chosen only because the word has been used a lot in the Greek media recently. Why? Because, in the past nine months, thirteen women have been killed by their partners or ex-partners. Of the three English words above,... Continue Reading →
Greek Word 18/2021
τσουμπλέκι – tsubleki. A large earthenware pot. It seems to come from the Turkish çömlek Tσουμπλέκι can also refer to a style of cooking where the vessel becomes synonymous with the food that is cooked in it, much like our use of, for example, chicken casserole. In fact, there are a few mouth-watering recipes online... Continue Reading →