APRIL 2018 SINCE AUGUST 2007 PAGE 1 Tel: (0030) 6974932408 www.theagiot.com The 126th Edition Agiot Courtesy Bert Rossum This Month Cover Photo. Video Corner. Advertising. Page 1 Page 15 Pages 23-25 Effrosyni Writes. Saturday Walks. Bears all the hallmarks…?. Pages 2-3 Page 15 Pages 26-27 Bespoke Property. Tickle ties the knot. OCAY Villas. Pages 27-28 Page 4 Page 16 Corfu Property Trail &Ocay Property. Gooner’s Gags HTC - Events. Pages 29-30 Pages 5-8 Page 17 Weather. A Poem. Life Changing Moments - Corfu. Page 30 Page 8 Pages 18-19 Letters to the Editor. Nick the Clock’s World. Hilary’s Ramblings. Pages 9-10 Pages 31-32 Pages 20-21 Agiotfest. Village and Island News. Aunty Lula’s Love-Bites. Pages 11-13 Pages 33-36 Page 21 Nature. The Way Things Are and Were. Simon’s World Page 14 Pages 36-37 Page 22 APRIL 2018 SINCE AUGUST 2007 PAGE 2 Meet the chief inspector in the third series of The Durrells of Corfu By Greek author and blogger, Effrosyni Moschoudi Oh, that makes sense! Now I see why the locations look so authentic… Kostas Krommydas is a well-known Greek actor that I’ve had the pleasure to watch in a couple of TV Yes, it’s an amazing place, quite magical. The dramas in the past. Recently, I met him online via a buildings, and the whole set up seem so real…they mutual friend and was intrigued to find out that he is truly make one feel transported back in time. It’s the an awarded novelist too. I offered him an interview perfect location for events, and for filming period on my blog to find out more about his work and, to stories. my delight, he said yes. What was your experience from playing in The Little did I know though, that when he sent me Durrells? Did it feel any different to work with photos to go with the article, I’d be looking at behind British actors for a change? -the-scenes snapshots from The Durrells of Corfu! As it turned out, Kostas will be making an My work experience alongside the British cast has appearance in series three of the show as a chief been exquisite. Everyone’s professionalism and the inspector. way they do things in general, are exemplary. The whole work environment has been very pleasant and It was very generous of him, I thought, to send in his everyone seemed to receive an equal measure of own photos during filming in Bouas Danilia village, respect for their contribution to the whole. especially as no less than three actors from The Personally, the actor who plays Leslie and I Durrells family are captured in them! Here follow developed a special bond, seeing that I did most of some highlights from our interview and an my scenes with him. I feel compelled to mention introduction to two of Kostas’s bestselling Greek Keeley Hawes too. My scenes with ‘Mrs Durrell’ novels that have been translated into English. stand out in my memory as some of the best scenes [Please follow my link below for more photos]. I’ve done in the series. I am astounded by her professionalism and talent. She is a superb actress Hi Kostas, and welcome to my blog! and it’s been a great pleasure to work with her. Would you like to tell us a little about the Were there any entertaining incidents that you locations where the filming took place? How could share with us? Did anything go wrong that much work was involved in creating that maybe delayed filming at any point? nostalgic 1930s look that viewers love so much about the series? I imagine it must be easy in Yes, entertaining incidents while filming The Corfu, given its timeless charm, to have this Durrells are very common because of the animals result on film with very little trouble indeed. that play in so many scenes. During filming my own scenes we had no general problems. That said, The scenes I did were filmed mainly in Corfu. I also donkeys were always within earshot, and we’d often travelled to London for a costume fitting. As you hear one braying loudly half way through a scene, said, it is easy in Corfu to find suitable locations for which meant we had to do it all over again a story set in a bygone era. Filming mainly took (*laughs*) place in Danilia, in Bouas village. Continued on Page 3 APRIL 2018 SINCE AUGUST 2007 PAGE 3 Effrosyni Writes Check out Kostas’s books: Continued from Page 2 What was the first thing you ever wrote and Historical romance how old were you then? Dimitri, a young actor who I used to write poems when I was in high school, enjoys professional success to let the girls know my feelings. It didn’t go and a romance with a that great, and I thought I wasn’t good at it. beautiful actress, travels to a Little did I know then that a few years later I Greek island – the birthplace would be considered in Greece as the male of his recently deceased author with the best insight in women’s uncle. Before he died, his psychosynthesis! uncle had expressed one last wish: that Dimitri scatters his ashes on the island. What has inspired you to write Cave of Dimitri welcomes this Silence? opportunity to shed some light on his family’s history—a history clouded in secrecy. But why does Cave of silence is based on a true story which his mother beg him to hide his identity once there? took place during the Second World War. I Soon, Dimitri discovers that the past casts long heard it many years ago, way before I started shadows onto the present. His visit sparks a chain of writing novels, from our family lawyer. I told events that gradually reveal the island’s dark him then that I will one day write this story. He secrets… didn’t believe me. New release – mystery romance Fotini Meliou is visiting her family on the island of Athora for a few days, before starting a new life in the US. She is looking forward to a brief respite and, perhaps, becoming better acquainted with the seductive Gabriel, whom she has just met. It is not the summer vacation she expects it to be. A massive weather bomb is gathering over the Aegean just as a priest is found dead in the sanctuary, his body ritualistically mutilated... You are welcome to visit http:// effrosyniwrites.com/2018/02/26/interview-with- author-and-actor-kostas-krommydas-from-the- durrells-of-corfu/ to read the whole interview, to download the books, and to see the rest of the photos. “Louisa Durrell” is even wearing her signature straw hat beside Kostas in their picture together! If you enjoyed this then please visit these websites: http://effrosyniwrites.com/ http://effrosyniwrites.com/your-guide-to-moraitika-corfu/ APRIL 2018 SINCE AUGUST 2007 PAGE 4 Tickle Ties the knot In the continuing series of useful knots and how to tie them, this month the figure of eight.. The Figure of Eight How to tie a Figure of Eight (on a bight) What is a figure of eight used for... The figure-eight knot or figure-of-eight knot is a type of stopper knot. It is very important in both sailing and rock climbing as a method of stopping ropes from running out of retaining devices. Like the overhand knot, which will jam under strain, often requiring the rope to be cut, the figure-of-eight will also jam, but is usually more easily undone than the overhand knot. APRIL 2018 SINCE AUGUST 2007 PAGE 5 Gooners Gags Actual Call Centre conversations !!!!! 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