the ionian march 2010

The Ionian / March 2010 www.theionian.com All Rights Reserved ©Barbara Molin

The Ionian English Language Magazine For The Ionian March 2010 Volume 1. Issue 1 COMPLIMENTARY/∆ΩΡΕΑΝ

Welcome To The First Issue Of The Ionian Greek Independence Day: March 25

Feature Story: Freedom and Independence News, Greek Corner, Calendar of Events and More...

2 All Rights Reserved ©Barbara Molin The Ionian / March 2010

Nick & John Dimopoulos

AKTIO—PREVEZA—GREECE TEL: (0030) 2682061305 FAX: (0030) 2682061306

VHF CHANNEL: 09 P.O. BOX 42 AKTIO MARINE 48 100 PREVEZA, GREECE

www.aktio-marine.gr [email protected]

YACHTS HAUL-OUT AND STORAGE REPAIRING—BUILDING—CHARTERING

AKTIO MARINE


Editorial

Welcome To Our New Magazine The Ionian is a new magazine, which will be distributed

throughout the Ionian islands and coastal area of Greece. We are young, this issue being number one, so please bear with us as we go through our growing pains. We hope to create a vibrant, fun, positive magazine in English, with a healthy dose of local input from our generous and kind Greek hosts, friends and business associates on topics relating to life in the Ionian. In this issue, we offer The Ionian News, with a Greek Corner and a Calendar of Events to which we hope you will contribute.

As March 25th is the Day of Independence in Greece, we have a Feature in line with this theme, entitled, Freedom and Inde-pendence. In The Last Word Is Yours section we welcome your letters and emails. In our future issues we plan to expand the content of the maga-zine to include news and stories from all of the areas of the Ionian: Corfu, Paxi, Lefkada, Ithaki, Kefallonia, Zakynthos, as well as the mainland coast. The Greek Corner will grow as soon as we find a Greek Editor. We also plan to add more depart-ments, such as On The Water, Ionian Destinations, Homes and Food, Art and Culture and Ionian Life.

Our website, www.theionian.com, will follow shortly, and we encourage you to read that as well.

I would like to thank many of you who have offered encour-agement, advice, and assistance in getting this issue out, as well as extend to you, the reader, my very warm welcome. Ευχαριστω ~~_/) Barbara Molin

3 Editorial Welcome To Our New Magazine.

4 The Ionian News The latest news from you about the Ionian plus a Calendar of Events and a Greek Corner.

5 Feature Story Freedom and Independence.

6 Classified Ads and Business Directory 7 The Last Word Is Yours Your comments, letters and emails.

The Ionian

CONTACT The Ionian EDITORIAL By email: [email protected] Via our website: www.theionian.com By mail: S.V. Eidos c/o Aktio Marine, P.O. Box 42; Preveza, 48100 By phone: (0030) 69486 46764 By fax to: Barbara Molin c/o (0030) 26820 61306

Publisher/Editor: Barbara Molin Copy Editor: Maureen Fay Jenkins Advertising Sales: Barbara Molin Printing: PhotoNet/Ionian Yacht Surplus Distribution: Jannice Hayes

The Ionian needs your help We are looking for sales agents, distributors, as well as writers, reporters, photographers and of course advertisers from all the is-lands and coastal areas of the Ionian. At this time, all we can give you in exchange for your hard work is fame, but as we grow, per-haps fortune as well. We are also looking for an Editor for our Greek page. If you would like to contribute, please email your CV to: [email protected].

The Ionian encourages relevant letters, news items, photographs, and manuscripts. Please include hi-res digital images with your typed articles. Include a short bio (50 words), a head shot, your name and full postal address as well as email and telephone number. The editor re-serves the right to shorten or modify any material submitted. The Ionian reserves the right to re-use any submission in any edi-tion, format or medium. We cannot take responsibility for manuscripts or photographs sent in. For more information request writers’ guidelines or check our website: www.theionian.com

Contents

Publisher/Editor: ©Barbara Molin; [email protected]; Telephone: 6948646764; Tax No. 148426549 The Ionian is published monthly. Published on the last Thursday before each month, approx. Complimentary magazine: (0030) 69486 46764 [email protected] Publication is for informational purposes only. Although The Ionian has made every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this publication, the publisher cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions it may contain.


Spr ing Is Here: Is Your Boat Ready?

The Ionian News

If you are just now looking for extra help with your refit projects —good luck —most boat repair and maintenance companies report being very busy this spring.

All winter long, gales and storms have been passing through the Ionian every week or two, and those of us working outside sometimes had to wait a few days to paint or grind. However, inside work has been progressing well.

Don’t have a boat? No problem. There are plenty of boats for sale in all the marinas and boatyards.

Aktio Marine Boatyard near Preveza ©Barbara Molin

IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME! Greek word you already know:

democracy—δηµοκρατια—thi-mo-kra-ti-a

Did you know? March 25 is Independence Day

in Greece. This is the anniversary of the hoisting of the Greek flag by Bishop Germanos at Moni Agias Lavras, near Kalavryta in the Peloponese in 1821. Germanos’s act of revolt marked the start of the War of Independence. It is celebrated with parades and dancing all throughout Greece. Independence Day coincides with the Feast of the Annunciation, so it is also a religious festival.

Γεια σου Αντίο Παρακαλώ Ευχαριστώ Ναι ‘Οχι Συγνώµη ∆εν καταλαβαίνω Μιλάτε Αγγλικά

Yia su A di o Pa-ra-ka-lo Ef-kha-ri-sto Ne O-hi Sigh-no-mi Then ka-ta-la-ve-no Mi-la-te ang-gli-ka;

Hello Goodbye Please Thank You Yes No Excuse me I don’t understand Do you speak English?

Send us your news stories and photos to [email protected]

The Ionian Calendar

March Time to book your boat launch. 8 International Women’s Day Tuesdays and Sundays— morning street market in Vonitsa. 14 Paddy’s Soap Box Derby. Lefkada Island. Call Vliho Yacht Club 2645029282 for more information. 17 St. Patrick’s Day for all the Irish eve-rywhere. You can recognize the Irish be-cause they wear green and drink lots of beer on this day. 21 Boat Jumble—Lefkada marina. Call

Denise for more information 6947514872 25 Greek Independence Day. Parades and dancing everywhere.

April Easter is the most important festival in the Greek Orthodox religion. 2 Good Friday: Candle lit processions in all the towns and villages. 3 Easter Saturday 11 p.m. Resurrection Mass. Fireworks and candle lit processions after. 4 Easter Sunday: Lenten fast ends with cracking of red dyed Easter eggs. Roast

lamb and Greek dancing follows. The day’s greeting is: Hristos Anesti (Christ is risen) with a reply: Alithos Anesti ( Truly He is risen). 6 Feast of Agios Georgios, who is Greece’s patron saint. Dancing, singing and feasting. 10 Vliho Yacht Club Table Sale and Jum-ble. 10:30-14:30. Tel: 2645029282.

May 1 May Day Festival make wild flower wreaths to decorate your home or boat.

Please submit your community events to: [email protected] or call: 69486 46764.

Greek καφενείο

Easy Greek Recipe Σαγανάκι sa-gha-na-ki

Melt a little bit of butter in a frying pan and al-low to heat well. Add chunks of kefalotiri cheese. When the cheese is brown on one side, turn it over and fry lightly on the other side. Squeeze lemon juice on top and serve as appe-tiser with bread . Καλή όρεξη ka-li o-rek-si


Freedom And Independence

The guilt finally got to me, so I called my parents a month after sailing to the Bahamas. The conversation was predict-able:

“So when are you selling the boat and coming home?”

“I’m not selling the boat, why do you keep asking me that?”

“We worry about you, all alone out there.”

“Don’t worry, I’m fine.” “What do you do all day, aren’t you

tired of sailing yet?” “No, I’m not, I like it.” “Well, Mother and I think you should

sell the boat as quickly as possible and come back home. Get a job, rent an apart-ment, settle down…”

Actually, Mom and Dad, I’m planning to cross the Atlantic soon, I thought to myself but didn’t say it.

No matter how often I try to explain, they just don’t get it. They’re part of the Second World War generation from East-ern Europe. They remember the bombs, the deaths, the hunger and then the loss of freedom under the communist regime. They value safety, security, a roof over their heads, money saved for a rainy day or a rainy lifetime.

For me, safety has been a given, an assumed, expected, and taken for granted right. I have never been hungry, without shelter, or frightened for my life (well, maybe once at sea). So, I long for adven-

ture. As a child I read “Robinson Crusoe” and books about children exploring the Nile alone, or stowing away on ships. I dreamed of a life like that.

So now, I’m living my dream, just like my parents have realized theirs by immi-grating to Canada and working their whole life to create the stability they have craved in their childhood and youth. Yet, they forget that their dream is not mine, largely thanks to them. Mostly thanks to them. They have provided me with the stability and thus gave me the strong wings with which to take off and fly. Or sail.

Yes, my plans are made in sand at low tide; I live day-to-day, often not knowing where my next port will be. But I have this incredible faith in the abundance of nature that all my needs will somehow be met. I see the proof in nature’s abundance all around me: the grains of sand on the beach, the drops of water in the ocean, the billions of leaves fallen from the trees, schools of fish, flocks of birds – nature in its glory, following her destiny without fear.

And fear is what I see in my parents’ eyes. Fear of the future, based on their experiences of the past. Fear of hunger and of cold. Fear of death and of life.

I wish I could snap my fingers and show them that there is nothing to fear – life is to be lived in the present to the best of our ability, fully and completely suck-ing the juice each day. I want to tell them to forget about the past and not think about the future for they do not exist. They are only faint images in our mind’s camera. I want them to enjoy today.

I want them to understand that when I live in the moment, fully in my passion - magic happens. Nature’s abundance pro-vides all that I need, whether it’s the fish I catch today because I’m tired of eating rice and pasta and spend the time learning how to bait my hook and finding out where to drop it, or the work that comes my way through a person I meet at the post office, or the piece of plywood for a new hatch that arrives on the tide.

And if for a time nothing happens, I just batten down the hatches and remind myself that I’m still much better off than people who live in war torn countries, pol-luted, crowded and violent cities, people who don’t have enough to eat or clean water to drink, or who can’t escape be-cause they’re caught in a web of their minds.

But they don’t understand. They never will. Even so, thanks Mom and Dad. Barbara Molin has been a freelance writer, photographer and editor since 1986. She has cruised in North America, crossed the Atlantic and sailed extensively in the Mediterranean on board Eidos, her 32-foot East Orient. Since 2007, she has been growing roots in the Ionian, Greece.

The Ionian Feature

We welcome your stories. Please send 300 to 1,000 words with high resolution photos to: [email protected]. Please check page 3 and our website for writers’ guidelines.


The Ionian Classifieds

FOR SALE

BUSINESS SERVICES

ANTARES BOAT REPAIR Michael Krause

P.O. Box 53 Electric 48100 Preveza Welding Greece Mechanic Fiberglass Phone: 0030 6977 816268 Fax: 0030 26820 60974 E-mail: [email protected]

Sails—Rigging

WAY POINT Lefkas Marina 31 100 Lefkada Tel/Fax 0030 2645 0 21461 Email: [email protected]

Central Square Lefkas Tel: 26450 25005

[email protected]

To advertise:

Tel: 69486 46764; Email [email protected] Please submit your ad by the 15th of each month.

Tell our advertisers where you found their ad.

BUSINESS SERVICES

Foul Weather Pants, New, Red, XL 70€; Violin 80€; Pentax SLR camera and lens: offers; Cruising guides, charts, books; Aktio Boat Yard, Barbara: 69486 46764.

BUSINESS SERVICES

SAKIS ZOGAS

PHOTONET

Genuine CQR 45lb (20kg) €30 Alexina of Shoreham in Preveza Boat-yard. Tel: 6949678921. Hurry—leaving soon!

YACHT REPAIRS (EXPERIENCED SHIPWRIGHT)

TONY TUCK STRUCTURAL REPAIRS & REFITS

ALL GRP & TIMBER, MAJOR WORKS UNDERTAKEN

E-mail: [email protected] Mobile: 0030-6944887777 House: 0030-2643029108

METRONIX Marine Electronics

Dipl. Ing. Dieter Samitz

Tel: 0030-26450/29488 Mobil: 0030-6944819059

Email: [email protected] www.metronix-gr.eu

Yposmenagou Katapodis, GR 31100 Lefkada

Fay Marine Paul Fay Grad IIMS

Marine Surveyor & Engineer

Tel: (+30) 69499 72696 [email protected] www.faymarine.com

BOB PHELPS YACHT CARPENTER

HULLS, DECKS, INTERIORS & REPAIRS

LEFKAS TOWN

TEL: 6932 877813 [email protected]

VONITSA, LEFKADA, AKTIO, PREVEZA

Yacht Paint

Panos Paliogiannis Tel: 6946.15.55.79

[email protected]

Preveza Yacht Services and boat chandlers

Pat McDonough Proprietor

6, Parthenagogeiou Str.

Preveza, 48100 Tel: (0030) 26820 60940

E-mail: [email protected] www.prevezayachtservices.biz

Vliho Yacht Club Ruairi & Vicky

Bradley

Vliho, 31084 Lefkas, Greece

Phone: 2645 029282 Mobile: 697 8889191

E-mail: [email protected]

Classic Yacht For Sale Laurent Giles 33ft. Burma teak. Built by Wing On Shing Shipyard to Lloyds scant-lings. Cutter rigged. Perkins Perma 30h.p. (almost new). Lying Knysna, W. Cape, S. Africa. €15,000. Tel: 69592 56402.

THIS SPACE COULD BE

YOURS

CALL 68486 46764 TO ADVERTISE


KARYATIS TRAVEL JENNY NOTA

EL. Vanizelou & Salaminos 1 PREVEZA

Tel-fax: 2682100232 Mob: 69308 00603

69492 25729 [email protected]

www.4uthesite.gr

The Moongrove Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Made from Koroneiki olives.

Grown, pressed and bottled locally.

€4.75 per 500ml bottle [email protected]

The Last Word

‘It’s a very professional magazine and will be beneficial to everyone in the Ionian. It’s nice to see something in English for this area..’ Maureen Fay-Jenkins Author of “Lone voyager”

‘(The Ionian) It’s a really good idea. I’m all behind you.’ Pat McDonough Preveza Yacht Services

We welcome your comments, letters and emails. Please write to us, not exceeding 250 words to: [email protected] . (Letters may be edited)

IONIAN GLASSFIBRE REPAIRS

Leslie Wood

Tel: 0030 26450 93043 Mobile: 6932 966248

Fax: 0030 26450 93043 Email: [email protected]

Paleokatouna, Lefkada, Greece TK 31084

IONIAN YACHT SURPLUS Secondhand Yacht Equipment

(Open mid April)

Geoff Fellows Proprietor

Tel/FAX: 26450 95669 Port Vliho (near Nidri) Mob: 6946 863109 Lefkada Island [email protected]

SUPER MARKET

Ethnikis Antistasis 47 (Shopping Street)

PREVEZA

Tel: 26820 28431

IGR Yacht Chandlery

Danny Keane Megalo Avlaki, Nidri

Tel: 0030 26450 92601 Mob: 6932 956861 Fax: 0030 26450 93136 Email: [email protected] www.igryachtservices.com

The Ionian Business Directory

KOSTELETOS SPYROS skos25otenet.gr Tel: 6973882340 Fax: 26430 22189

S K D Yachts Maintenance Chartering—Sales

Eirini Tsagaropoulou Dental Surgeon

English and German speaking

MMedSc Queen’s University of Belfast

Ethnikis Antistasis 105, Preveza

Telephone: 26820 21264 Mobile: 6939687970

Email: [email protected]

Marine/Electrical Engineer

Leighton King

Instruments, Computers, Radios Anything Electrical

Tel: 69773 81365 [email protected]

TAVERNA

o ΚΟΝΤΟΣ Panos Maris

OPEN FOR THE SEASON IN LATE MARCH/EARLY APRIL

Tel: (26820)22510

Aktio Beach—near Aktio Boatyards

SAM HAYES

BRITISH QUALIFIED SHIPS CARPENTER

BOAT REPAIRS TO TRADITIONAL & MODERN CRAFT

Tel: 69493 68572

E-mail: [email protected]


SAKIS ZOGAS PHOTOGRAPHER

Central Square Lefkas

Tel: 26450 25005 [email protected]

ΣΑΚΗΣ ΖΩΓΑΣ

ΦΩΤΟΓΡΑΦΗΣΕΙΣ—ΒΙΝΤΕΟΣΚΟΠΗΣΕΙΣ ΨΗΦΙΑΚΗ ΕΠΕΞΕΡΓΑΣΙΑ & ΕΚΤΥΠΩΣΗ

Ι. Μελά 4 Κεντριχή Πλατεια ΛΕΥΚΑ∆Α

Τηλ. 26450 25005

SAKIS ZOGAS

PHOTONET

ΣΑΚΗΣ ΖΩΓΑΣ

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