Tag: sea urchins

• The Day I Almost Died Swimming

  

  (Or less melodramatically known as, “The Day I Swam Alone Around the Peninsula”) There were three beaches in Alyki that we frequented, when we weren’t studiously working on our writing (ahem), called Beach 1, 2, and 3. Our workshop leader introduced us to the beaches in this way, but it took me nearly three weeks to…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  August 12, 2015

  fitness, humor, travel

  Aliki, Archodissa, exercise, Greece, marble quarry, near death experience, sea urchins, swimming, Tassos of Thassos, thasos, travel, writing workshops in Greece

• A Day in Thassos

  

  “For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves.” Luke 22:27 It’s alive Sea urchins have just been split open like sacrifices, their insides pulled out and passed around the table. Our…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  July 26, 2015

  food, travel

  culture, eating with Greeks, food, Greece, sea urchins, Tassos of Thassos, thasos, travel, writing, writing workshops in Greece