Ramblings from Rhodes has a new URL

Formerly http://honorarygreek.blogspot.com

 it is now:

http://ramblingsfromrhodes.blogspot.com

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 "He wanted some pigs killed,"  Says Tom, our English friend who lives down the hill from us, across the road and towards the beach. Tom is about 70 and pretty fit. With his two-day stubble he looks a lot like an old Greek. He and his wife May had lived over… Read full post »

If you check out this link, you can maybe be persuaded to part with a little of your hard-earned cash...

http://honorarygreek.blogspot.com/2010/11/want-little-tzatziki.html

 Thanks all you people out there in the ether.

Oh and... Robert Plant - Band of Joy - wonderful, try it! Read full post »

The third book in my lighthearted series of Greek memoirs is going to be made available from my main website before this month is out.

 If you like fun travel writing with the accent on Greece, click HERE.

There's a load of info about this and my previous… Read full post »

The steam roller (well, diesel roller to be more accurate) has a huge concrete front wheel. It must be five metres wide by two metres in diameter and it's headed straight towards me. I'm stumbling over piles of rocks, all random shapes, about football-sized and arranged in metre-high piles all around… Read full post »

"It makes the trees more visible to drivers at night." Say some. Yes, it does. But… Read full post »

You know those little moments in your past when a particular piece of music defined that time. Those pieces of music that, should you hear them today, elicit in your senses those smells, scenes and people that surrounded you as you listened?

Here are some of mine.

Pretty Flamingo - Manfred… Read full post »

Something strange has occurred here. In the first list of rock lyrics I posted (just for a bit of fun), most who responded got nearly all of them right. I see Open Salon still as very much USA-dominated, yet most of the lyrics from the first list were from British artists,… Read full post »

OK, here are the answers to list one...

Sit by the fire and dry out our wet clothes
- Van Morrison, Warm Love (Hard Nose the Highway)

But Gollum, the evil one, crept up and slipped away with her
- Led Zeppelin, Ramble On (Led Zeppelin 2)

See the blind man shooting at the world
-… Read full post »

I'll post the answers to the first bunch soon. meantime, here's another load to make your brain overheat...

 1. I got this girl beside me, but she's out of reach

2. A rich old man, she won't have to worry

3. What were those words whispered babe, just as you turned away?

4. But… Read full post »

OK, so can you name the songs and artists below?

No cover versions allowed, only original recordings...

1. Sit by the fire and dry out our wet clothes

2. But Gollum, the evil one, crept up and slipped away with her

3. See the blind man shooting at the world

4.… Read full post »

A lot of British people living here in Rhodes are viewed as either totally eccentric by the locals, or even as a flaming nuisance in one particular field, that of animals and their welfare.

We have one friend (no names no pack drill) who couldn't bear to see the… Read full post »

 I've had more than one conversation over the years with so-called "Christians" who tell me that "you have to have faith" when I ask them how they'd persuade an atheist to believe in their god. As far as I'm concerned, if you can't give logical reasons for what you… Read full post »

There follows my report after the initial three trelfthmas of studying the beings on the assigned planet, known to its own inhabitants as The Earth.

From afar it certainly appeared as though the dominant beings on this planet were of a high level of intelligence and intellect. I have to… Read full post »

I wear his ring

I can hardly bear to look

They called me in

Said, "Come for his effects."

Those ones who withdrew it

From cold flesh.

Strange word for a ring, an effect.

His watch was one too

And I also wear that

They both taunt me

That watch,… Read full post »

I haven't posted on OS for a few days because I've been getting some interesting feedback from people who've bought my books through my other blog (Ramblings From Rhodes).

Quite a lot of British visitors who come here during the summer months (which span mid-April thru October) have never experienced… Read full post »

This has been doing the rounds on the e-mail circuit. I never pass on "circular" e-mails, but really wanted to share this thought with fellow OS-ers... 

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.  One of… Read full post »

R.I.P.

My iPod's broken

I'm devastated,

I dropped it once too often

My iPod's dead

What am I gonna do?

It's gone, but not forgotten.

My iPod's dead

R.I.P.

I really can't face night-time

I listened when I could not sleep 

It soothed me at the… Read full post »

A fly on the wall (or should that be "cloud?") may hear musings...

You say I'm on your side

So do they I hear

You believe 

They believe

What's the problem here?

You say your soul will rise

And theirs will descend

You go up

They go down

You're… Read full post »

If you haven't read Micalpeace's post, "Be Thankful," maybe it would be good to do so before you read this one. It's here:

http://open.salon.com/blog/micalpeace/2009/11/25/be_thankful

It makes reference to domestic violence. Reading it put me in mind of a song I wrote and put on an album I recorded o… Read full post »

You were born there

And I elsewhere

You are dark, I am light

So we fight.

You have so much

That I cannot touch

You're from day - and I, night

so we fight.

Who says we should?

What's bad or what's good?

They will say, we'll obey

and… Read full post »

I was never a Doors fan. I thought them a little too light, a little too pretentious. I mean, at the time I was into Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath. The Doors were almost "pop" by comparison.

But then they came out with L.A. Woman. I seem to remember… Read full post »

Rhodes is really two islands. Granted, nowhere will you find the charm of Symi harbour, but the South of the island is brimming with untouched hillsides of olive groves, pine forests, fig trees and sleepy old white villages where you will still see grandmas sitting on shady steps… Read full post »