A Trata Disasta and Clean Monday Sweeps in on the Wind!

A Trata Disasta and Clean Monday Sweeps in on the Wind!

The last twenty-four hours have been pretty ‘yuck’! After returning back to my studios in Molos, the lurgy that I’d been fighting for days now wreaked its revenge. I spent the night shivering and struggling to get warm. The air con was cranked up to the max and I put as many layers of clothing…

Carnival Comes to Kastro – There’s a Goat on my Roof!

Carnival Comes to Kastro – There’s a Goat on my Roof!

The thing about Carnival on Skyros is that there is a loose framework around what is going to happen and where it will take place. However, you really need to be ‘in the know’ to grasp what’s going on. It isn’t like the very commercialised and huge carnival in Patras which because of its size…