Letters to the Calabrian Greko speakers from Greek kids and students in Australia and Thessaloniki

London based, Adelaide born filmmaker Basil Genimahaliotis joined me recently as we visited the Greek villages of Calabria to film a documentary on the Greko speakers. As part of our journey, we took along letters collected from Dr Efrosini Deligianni, the head of Modern Greek Studies at University of NSW, with her Greek language students…

The Principality of Samos

I remember sitting at the airport waiting to be picked up by a friend, thinking what would Pythagoras make of his island, now filled with tourists and a constant stream of visitors from Turkey (just 1.6 km away at its closest point)? I wondered if I would find the inspiration to add numbers and philosophise…