These days I find I’m fascinated by couples and human closeness, and it was a photograph of Melina Mercouri with her husband, Jules Dessin that captured my attention the most

The Greek crisis is impacting young people and young women in particular, but do we only ‘see’ unemployment among men?

Today, I’m sitting in the sunshine, listening to the sparrows chorusing crazily. There’s sadness but, thankfully, that’s not all…

In an unfamiliar country you can easily miss signals or misunderstand them. But I worry less about things like that these days

The day after I wrote the previous post, on 15 November 2014, my husband Mark Arram died. It was as sudden and unexpected as that

At Konservokouti they have created a place that acts as a container for all the warmth and heart that seems so characteristic of many Greeks…

There’s a sense that people are tired and weary, but also of unfinished business. People are waiting to see what happens at the next elections, whether SYRIZA might get in…