Teresas DiNapoli is currently living in Parikia, a town on the island of Paros in Greece. She’s been focusing on drawing, art history, literature and painting, with some printmaking and writing on the side. Email Teresa your thoughts at teresad [at] student.pnca.edu.

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Nov 23, 2006

Hiking amidst antiquity

Two weeks ago, we went on a hike outside of Lefkes (a long one, where I returned early with some others). After scrambling across a dried river bed and slipping and sliding over slick rock and prickly bushes, we pulled ourselves out of the ditch and onto to the soil where this tree’s roots take charge. Who knows how old it is, thousands of year maybe? It’s huge.
(photo-M.Dunstan)

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Oct 23, 2006

Santorini Volcano Hike

This weekend, a small group of us (eight of us girls from the Center, and one visiting friend) took a trip to Santorini. Cliffs rise dramatically from the sea with villages scattered like snow on the precipice, with only several ways to get up and down from the ports. The sun came out for us as we arrived, after having been in a bout of grey and wind back in Paros for a week or so.

Saturday, we all paid for a day boat excursion that would take us to the volcano, Nea Kameni, Thirassia and with the option of being let off in Oia for the sunset (and taking a public bus back to the town of Fira). The volcano was the first stop, and they gave us (and the rest of the people on the boat, probably 20 or so) an hour to get up to the top and back. The hike up took about 20 minutes and was breathtaking, sweaty, inspiring, and otherworldly. I turned around many times to pause and take a breather, stopping in moments to take pictures of this Martian-like landscape of black, grey, and burnt sienna red.

The little dots of people are Christy and Danielle. Behind them, you can see a cruise ship and behind that, the caldera jutting from the sea.

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Oct 16, 2006

Different and beautiful view

When you walk up our school’s stairs from the side street to the side entrance and turn around before going inside, this is the view you have.

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Oct 16, 2006

Wandering

Yesterday, I took a walk up to an old church that overlooks the sea. The walk up from the main street was winding and sometimes very narrow. On the way, I passed remains of a Frankish castle.

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Oct 16, 2006

Paroikia

I walk down this street everyday. The Aegean Center is the orange and blue building.

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Oct 11, 2006

obligatory sunset and sea photograph

This was the first or second night here in Parikia, and I was not going to show it, since I already posted a sunset shot. But, since I have yet to take many pictures of the sea and the the town of Parikia itself, this will do for now. Taken near the port.

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Oct 11, 2006

Acropolis Tree

This lovely tree is on the eastern side of the Erechtheion, facing the direction of the Propylaia and entrance. The Erechtheion was built on the most sacred part of the Acropolis land, the soil where Athena produced the olive tree and where Poseidon created a small fount, near the western side of the building. Allegedly, this tree is the same tree. Knowing now how old olive trees can be, I find myself undoubting.

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Oct 07, 2006

Sunset

Taken from one of the upper level apartment’s front porch area. The buildings in the foreground and lower portion of the photo are part of the same complex, the Aegean Village, where most of us live (four of the group live across the bay and several live in apartments outside of this little complex but still close). The caretaker of the Village is named Georgia, but we call her Mama. There are cats with names as well, like Baxter.

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Oct 07, 2006

view of the agora

Looking down from the Acropolis, one sees the ancient Agora (marketplace) and Temple of Haephestus (or Thesian Temple). Later that day I went there on my own for some hours. The Temple of Haephestus is one of the few nearly fully-intact temples in Athens. The frieze that wraps around the temple and beneath the pediments is a centauromachy (loving the words learned from Isaac last fall) and still present, not that damaged pollution or weathered by the elements (especially the frieze that is within the inner structure and for the most part unweathered).

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Oct 02, 2006

The Nymphaion

In Greek mythology, these forests on the hill are where the nymphs resided.

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Oct 02, 2006

aged streets

Not all streets in Pistoia look this aged, but most do on some level or another. Our first time seeing this, we were all drawn to its antiquity. It is one of the oldest sections of Pistoia.

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Oct 02, 2006

a view

This was the view from my bedroom at the villa, looking out onto the sprawling driveway. We would sometimes catch the bus right at the end. More often then not, however, we would walk six or eight minutes down the hill to the Candeglia stop and catch the bus into town or to the train station there.

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