Nature in Greece | Mountains, lakes, forests, fauna and flora
Blackberries
Greek: βατόμουρα A purply black-coloured berry comprising many individual seed-containing fruits surrounding a cone-shaped core. Wonderfully juicy, they’re good raw (straight from the hedge!) or cooked and are bursting with vitamin C. Wild, they’re often called brambles meaning any impenetrable scrub. Sometimes called the “Cabernet…
Restoring an old wood stove
The stove was discovered in 2009 on the island of Tenos in the Cyclades in the garbage where it’s second owner disposed of it. It was originally bought and used by it’s first owner in Konitsa, Epirus, who moved it to Athens in the mid-1950s to his shop in the…
Boletus
The name is derived from the Latin term bōlētus ‘mushroom’ from the Ancient Greek “βωλίτης”, ultimately from bōlos/βώλος ‘lump’ or ‘clod’. In Greece Boletus is also called “the king of mushrooms” – “βασιλομανίταρο”. The fruit body has a large cap which on occasion can reach…
