Tag Archives: greece

when the wheels come off

Posted on October 28, 2025 by jonathan trustram

That was one of the first ones. They come to rest in gullies, ditches, gorges. For a few excited moments they roll and bounce, watched maybe, then they’re still for ever. Just come across this, a draft from several years … Continue reading →

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in Greece, 2024

Posted on February 9, 2025 by jonathan trustram

I measure my decline against the mountain’s incline. This year I was still able, slowly, to walk up from Anavriti to Livadi, from 700 metres above sea level to 1400 metres and then back down by a more circuitous route … Continue reading →

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notes on bird hides and on rewilding

Posted on December 17, 2024 by jonathan trustram

Four Fields, Tim Dee, p. 51 A new sort of alienation has already been devised: the tristesse of the bird watching hide. I can feel it now in the strange log cabin that has been erected on Tubney fen. Nothing … Continue reading →

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Into the past again, awkwardly: inside the tulip

Posted on October 23, 2024 by jonathan trustram

I’d never seen such a creature before, but I knew in a vague sort of way that something called a pollen beetle existed, and this has to be it. It could be a cue for thoughts of corruption and decay, … Continue reading →

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into the past again, naturally: the perfect tulip?

Posted on October 22, 2024 by jonathan trustram

Of course I don’t have a favourite flower, but this is it. In 2016, in April, at the end of a trip to Greece, I drove a long way round back towards the airport, though Parnon, or Parnonas, in the … Continue reading →

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moments in time

Posted on December 15, 2023 by jonathan trustram

Here’s a photograph I took in 2019 on Mount Olympus, at about 1900 metres, at the end of May. (It’s disappointingly fuzzy here, an imperfectly recovered memory.) Snow still lay in a few hollows and gullies, but spring had arrived, and … Continue reading →

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Easy Pieces on Easy Mountain Walks in order of easiness, No1, Pangaeo

Posted on November 27, 2023 by jonathan trustram

Pangaeo, 29th of May, 2019. It lies in south east Greece. The mountain is basically a long, quite narrow ridge from east to west, with several undistinguished summits and views south over the Aegean. Its name means all the Aegean, … Continue reading →

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Maria and the museum in Exochori

Posted on April 24, 2023 by jonathan trustram

April 18, as scribbled in my notebook: a story which she will never forget – not any detail of it – and which I cannot remember. as it rolled and swelled I did a kind of orchestration by saying, every … Continue reading →

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hand baked no 5: water

Posted on January 13, 2023 by jonathan trustram

Many of water’s properties are quite bizarre. It is the only chemical that can exist as a solid, liquid and gas at ambient conditions. Felix Flicker in the Magic of Matter. It’s his real name, by the way. Although of … Continue reading →

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Blue(s)

Posted on November 15, 2022 by jonathan trustram

Here they’ve taken the sky for a colour chart. The sky fills in the ruins. Brand new shutters. I cheated a little – pulled the chairs forward a couple of feet into the light. The can is labelled ‘crinos’, which … Continue reading →

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