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Sammy – my new foal

Since this January my herd has ‘grown’  – I can say it now has 4 and 1/2 members. The 1/2 stands for Sammy, a Skyrian foal of (at his arrival) 9 months old. Sammy has come to my group to be a companion for Simba,…

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LATE SUMMER

  After August 15 (Assumption of the Holy Virgin = THE most important feast-day in Greece) the mornings and evenings will get cooler again, is what they say here. Well okay, but HOW far after this 15th of August? Already for 4 months (from the…

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Springtime!

Springtime! Horses disappear in the luscious grass  – when they’re not racing and jumping around out of sheer fun. And they’re right – it IS wonderful to ride along all the flowers of this season – the wild iris, orchids and all those lovely roadside…

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In search of the Durrells

Corfu is also ‘Durrell-island’ , that famous lot of the book ‘My family and other animals’ by Gerald Durrell. And more even now that they are making a television-series of this story on Corfu. When the crew is here, the whole island lives in the…

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Winter wonderland! (snow on Corfu)

The news even reached the international papers – it’s snowing in Greece! Now that’s not SO special for the northern provinces, like my previous place Florina, but yes – when DO you see a totally white Acropolis (without talking about the marble stone) or the…

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Autumn-dreaming…

What are the temperatures in northern Europe now? 10o?? Is the sun shining? Are the autumn-colours there, have we lit the stove, longing for a nice hot cocoa?? I am happy to live in a place where also seasons exist, because the whole year round…

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Hacking out

Where I’m situated on Corfu, it used to be all farmland: of course the olive-groves and vineyards, but also fields full of grass for the cattle (sheep/goats/cows) and smaller fields with vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, beans. Now with the crisis people start to farm…

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Horses and kids go fine together!

This happened yesterday – I have a twin (brother and sister) of 10 years old learning the basics of riding and connecting with a horse. They had to saddle Shiva, who was standing on a long rope in the field. Now Shiva has a little…

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