The Ionian March 2010

The Ionian English Language Magazine For The Ionian

March 2010 Volume 1. Issue 1 COMPLIMENTARY/∆ΩΡΕΑΝ

Welcome To The First Issue Of The Ionian

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AKTIO MARINE YACHTS HAUL-OUT AND STORAGE REPAIRING—BUILDING—CHARTERING

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 2

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CONTACT The Ionian EDITORIAL By email: admin@theionian.com 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: Copy Editor: Advertising Sales: Printing: Distribution:

Barbara Molin Maureen Fay Jenkins Barbara Molin PhotoNet/Ionian Yacht Surplus Jannice Hayes

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 reserves the right to shorten or modify any material submitted.

The Ionian reserves the right to re-use any submission in any edition, 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

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.

As March 25th is the Day of Independence in Greece, we have a Feature in line with this theme, entitled, Freedom and Independence. 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 magazine 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 Welcome To Our New Magazine as we find a Greek Editor. We also plan to add more departments, such as On The Water, Ionian Destinations, Homes The Ionian is a new magazine, which will be distributed and Food, Art and Culture and Ionian Life. throughout the Ionian islands and coastal area of Greece. We are Our website, www.theionian.com, will follow shortly, and we young, this issue being number one, so please bear with us as we encourage you to read that as well. go through our growing pains. We hope to create a vibrant, fun, I would like to thank many of you who have offered encourpositive magazine in English, with a healthy dose of local input agement, advice, and assistance in getting this issue out, as well from our generous and kind Greek hosts, friends and business as extend to you, the reader, my very warm welcome. associates on topics relating to life in the Ionian.

In this issue, we offer The Ionian News, with a Greek Corner Ευχαριστω and a Calendar of Events to which we hope you will contribute. ~~_/) Barbara Molin

Editorial

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 islands 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, perhaps 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: admin@theionian.com.

Publisher/Editor: ©Barbara Molin; barbara.molin@theionian.com; Telephone: 6948646764; Tax No. 148426549 The Ionian is published monthly. Published on the last Thursday before each month, approx. Complimentary magazine: (0030) 69486 46764 admin@theionian.com 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.

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The Ionian News Send us your news stories and photos to editor@theionian.com

Spring Is Here: Is Your Boat Ready?

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.

Greek καφενείο 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.

Easy Greek Recipe Σαγανάκι sa-gha-na-ki Melt a little bit of butter in a frying pan and allow 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 appetiser with bread . Καλή όρεξη ka-li o-rek-si

Aktio Marine Boatyard near Preveza

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

democracy—δηµοκρατια—thi-mo-kra-ti-a 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?

The Ionian Calendar Please submit your community events to: calendar@theionian.com or call: 69486 46764.

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 everywhere. You can recognize the Irish because they wear green and drink lots of beer on this day.

21 Boat Jumble—Lefkada marina. Call

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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 Jumble. 10:30-14:30. Tel: 2645029282.

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

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The Ionian Feature Freedom And Independence The guilt finally got to me, so I called my parents a month after sailing to the Bahamas. The conversation was predictable: “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 apartment, 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 Eastern 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-

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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 immigrating 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 sucking 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 provides 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, polluted, crowded and violent cities, people who don’t have enough to eat or clean water to drink, or who can’t escape because 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.

We welcome your stories. Please send 300 to 1,000 words with high resolution photos to: editor@theionian.com. Please check page 3 and our website for writers’ guidelines.

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The Ionian Classifieds FOR SALE

BUSINESS SERVICES

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

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.

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

BUSINESS SERVICES

SAKIS ZOGAS

PHOTONET Central Square Lefkas Tel: 26450 25005 photonetlefkas@hotmail.com

Tel: 69486 46764; Email advertising@theionian.com Please submit your ad by the 15th of each month.

Tell our advertisers where you found their ad.

BOB PHELPS YACHT CARPENTER HULLS, DECKS, INTERIORS & REPAIRS

LEFKAS TOWN TEL: 6932 877813 bobphelps8@hotmail.com

THIS SPACE COULD BE YOURS CALL 68486 46764 TO ADVERTISE

METRONIX

Ruairi & Vicky Bradley

Marine Electronics

VONITSA, LEFKADA, AKTIO, PREVEZA

Yacht Paint Panos Paliogiannis Tel: 6946.15.55.79 yachtnPainting@yahoo.com

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To advertise:

Vliho Yacht Club

Vliho, 31084 Lefkas, Greece Phone: 2645 029282 Mobile: 697 8889191 E-mail: vlihoyc@otenet.gr

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BUSINESS SERVICES

Dipl. Ing. Dieter Samitz Tel: 0030-26450/29488 Mobil: 0030-6944819059 Email: samitz@metronix-gr.eu www.metronix-gr.eu Yposmenagou Katapodis, GR 31100 Lefkada

Fay Marine Paul Fay Grad IIMS Marine Surveyor & Engineer

Tel: (+30) 69499 72696 paul@faymarine.com www.faymarine.com

Preveza Yacht Services and boat chandlers Pat McDonough Proprietor 6, Parthenagogeiou Str. Preveza, 48100 Tel: (0030) 26820 60940 E-mail: pys@hol.gr www.prevezayachtservices.biz

YACHT REPAIRS (EXPERIENCED SHIPWRIGHT)

TONY TUCK STRUCTURAL REPAIRS & REFITS ALL GRP & TIMBER, MAJOR WORKS UNDERTAKEN

E-mail: tonytuck@otenet.gr Mobile: 0030-6944887777 House: 0030-2643029108

Sails—Rigging

WAY POINT Lefkas Marina 31 100 Lefkada Tel/Fax 0030 2645 0 21461 Email: waypointsails@yahoo.com

ANTARES BOAT REPAIR Michael Krause P.O. Box 53 48100 Preveza Greece

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The Ionian Business Directory The Moongrove

IONIAN GLASSFIBRE REPAIRS

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Leslie Wood

Made from Koroneiki olives.

Grown, pressed and bottled locally.

Tel: 0030 26450 93043 Mobile: 6932 966248 Fax: 0030 26450 93043 Email: leswood23@gmail.com

€4.75 per 500ml bottle enquiry@themoongrove.com

Paleokatouna, Lefkada, Greece TK 31084

KARYATIS TRAVEL JENNY NOTA EL. Vanizelou & Salaminos 1 PREVEZA Tel-fax: 2682100232 Mob: 69308 00603 69492 25729 notapolix0@ath.forthnet.gr www.4uthesite.gr

IONIAN YACHT SURPLUS

SAM HAYES

Secondhand Yacht Equipment

BRITISH QUALIFIED SHIPS CARPENTER

(Open mid April)

BOAT REPAIRS

Geoff Fellows Proprietor

TO TRADITIONAL & MODERN CRAFT

Tel/FAX: 26450 95669 Mob: 6946 863109

Tel: 69493 68572 E-mail: samhayes0@msn.com

Port Vliho (near Nidri) Lefkada Island

geoffiys@yahoo.co.uk

Eirini Tsagaropoulou

TAVERNA

Dental Surgeon

o ΚΟΝΤΟΣ

English and German speaking

Panos Maris

MMedSc Queen’s University of Belfast

OPEN FOR THE SEASON IN LATE MARCH/ EARLY APRIL Tel: (26820)22510

Ethnikis Antistasis 105, Preveza

Telephone: 26820 21264 Mobile: 6939687970 Email: itsagaropoulou@gmail.com

Aktio Beach—near Aktio Boatyards

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: igr@otenet.gr www.igryachtservices.com

Marine/Electrical Engineer

SKD

Leighton King

Yachts Maintenance Chartering—Sales

Instruments, Computers, Radios Anything Electrical

KOSTELETOS SPYROS

Tel: 69773 81365

skos25otenet.gr Tel: 6973882340 Fax: 26430 22189

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The Last Word We welcome your comments, letters and emails. Please write to us, not exceeding 250 words to: editor@theionian.com .

(Letters may be edited)

‘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.’

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SAKIS ZOGAS PHOTOGRAPHER Central Square Lefkas Tel: 26450 25005 photonetlefkas@hotmail.com

SAKIS ZOGAS

PHOTONET ΣΑΚΗΣ ΖΩΓΑΣ

ΣΑΚΗΣ ΖΩΓΑΣ ΦΩΤΟΓΡΑΦΗΣΕΙΣ—ΒΙΝΤΕΟΣΚΟΠΗΣΕΙΣ ΨΗΦΙΑΚΗ ΕΠΕΞΕΡΓΑΣΙΑ & ΕΚΤΥΠΩΣΗ

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