Kanela, who walks the first kilometre
Our dog was found on the Vikos path. She has been showing guests the way ever since.
Ημερολόγιο
The journal
Written at the kitchen table in the quiet months, about the things guests ask about: why the fire is lit on the first of October, what is in the blue notebook, how you number four thousand slates.
The drying room
The most popular room in the house has no bed in it.
Numbering the slates
How a roof of four thousand stones was taken apart and put back, one at a time.
What grows under the beeches
After the first autumn rain, the forest across the valley is full of mushrooms. Here is how we pick them.
Kyra Vangelio’s blue notebook
Forty years of pies in a school exercise book, and why we never photograph it.
The first fire
On the first of October we light the fire in the winter room, whatever the weather.