Mention the words vegan and Greece in the same sentence and anyone who has ever visited the country will tell you how superb the herbivorous options are. Edible plants, it’s true, spring up like weeds through cracks wherever there’s a vacant patch of earth, and the corner stores – or supermarkets as they are generallyContinue reading “Discovering Lefkada’s vegan delights: A guide to plant-based eating on a Greek island paradise”
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Tell me, Muse, of the cats of Lefkada, the crafty ferals who banished snakes to the crags…
At first it seems as if there are scores of feral cats wandering the lanes of Nikiana, lurking around the industrial-sized rubbish bins near restaurants and blocks of flats, shading themselves under parked cars, sitting on empty plots of land with thousand-yard stares in their eyes, drifting in and out of a half-built villa. TheyContinue reading “Tell me, Muse, of the cats of Lefkada, the crafty ferals who banished snakes to the crags…”
How a mini-stroke led me to a reset and serenity on a down-to-earth Greek island retreat
It had been a hell of a year and I was searching the web for something to help put a full stop at the end of one phase of life and kickstart the next bit. Right at the end of 2022, shortly before Christmas and two weeks before my 60th birthday, I had a transientContinue reading “How a mini-stroke led me to a reset and serenity on a down-to-earth Greek island retreat”
Bardo Burner 