Tag: Aliki

• Thassos in Flames

  

  Three weeks ago today, I left my beloved Thassos island to return to America. The day I left Aliki, it was so early it was still dark. Looking back from the ferry, Thassos was just a silhouette, and my thoughts drifted back to June 1st, the day I first boarded it en route to Thassos. I…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  September 12, 2016

  Greece, travel, Uncategorized

  Aliki, Archodissa, Emerald Paradise, Fire, Greece, Natural disaster, Tassos of Thassos, thassos, Tha_SOS

• The Day I Almost Died Swimming

  

  (Or less melodramatically known as, “The Day I Swam Alone Around the Peninsula”) There were three beaches in Alyki that we frequented, when we weren’t studiously working on our writing (ahem), called Beach 1, 2, and 3. Our workshop leader introduced us to the beaches in this way, but it took me nearly three weeks to…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  August 12, 2015

  fitness, humor, travel

  Aliki, Archodissa, exercise, Greece, marble quarry, near death experience, sea urchins, swimming, Tassos of Thassos, thasos, travel, writing workshops in Greece