Kathryn Gauci’s quest to find traditional Greece drew her to the Dodecanese Islands in 2005. Her memoir, An Aegean Odyssey, intertwines history, cuisine, traditions, and breathtaking landscapes with stories of the people she meets along the way as she explores the road less traveled.
Colours of Aegean Dreams: A Greek Odyssey
Travellers' Greece : Memories of an Enchanted Land complied by John B. Tomkinson. Published by ANAGNOSIS.
Sean Bryan was a nineteen year old backpacker in Athens, Greece in November 1973, when he witnessed what became a pivotal moment in modern Greek history: the student uprising that led to the eventual overthrow of the military regime.
November 17, 1973, a Greek army tank crashed the gate of the Polytechnic Institute of Athens, where students were protesting the military dictatorship crippling Greece. It was the largest public protest against the regime, which toppled 8 months later. Today we celebrate those students and their sacrifice. ζήτω η Ελλάδα!
Her colleagues denounced the celebrated actress as a collaborator. Was she a traitor, a hero, or the victim of her rivals’ greed and ambition?
Music and photo montages below:
Γιατί φταίει η γυναίκα - Ελένη Παπαδάκη
Τρελλή θεατρίνα - Ελένη Παπαδάκη
Θέλω μαμά ένα αντρούλη - Ελένη Παπαδάκη
Ελένη Παπαδάκη - Μ' αυτά τα λόγια σου λιγώθηκα
Mini bio:
Η εκτέλεση της ηθοποιού Ελένης Παπαδάκη στα Δεκεμβριανά
ΕΛΕΝΗ ΠΑΠΑΔΑΚΗ-ΟΙ ΗΘΙΚΟΙ ΑΥΤΟΥΡΓΟΙ ΚΑΙ ΟΙ ΕΚΤΕΛΕΣΤΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΕΓΚΛΗΜΑΤΟΣ