Author: HappyAnt

Greece, Zante, Laganas: Heaven or Hell?

Every year thousands of youngsters from all over Europe reach the Greek island of Zante (Zakynthos), where they head directly to the seaside resort of Laganas, one of the main hotspots for ‘sun and fun’ oriented holidays, with the sole purpose of partying.

But… along with ‘crazy good times’, fights, sexual harassments and accidents, mostly due to the alcohol abuse, are in the daily agenda.
Still the legend of Laganas doesn’t seem to fade away.
Is this Heaven or Hell?

Part of a series of videos for the blog camperistas.com

Greece, Corinth Canal Sinking Bridges

This achievement of engineering, though simple in its conception, is a world unique.
At both entrances of the Isthmus of Corinth, the man-maid canal that separates Peloponnese from mainland Greece, you can see the only submersible bridges in the world. The idea behind the project is to provide passage to the vehicles, while giving right of way to the ships that are scheduled to cross the Canal.

Part of a series of videos for the blog camperistas.com

Perah Istar (2012)

Perah Istar is a 60 minutes documentary about the complicated relationship between people and pigeons in modern cities.
In ancient times, it was considered the bird of fertility and love (perah Istar, the Semitic word for dove, means the bird of Aphrodite). The three main monotheistic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – venerate it. In the Middle Ages it became the symbol of peace…

So how on earth did they end up being considered a ‘rat with wings’ or a city parasite? What happened to this small domestic bird, highly esteemed for its virtues and long admired for its beauty? Why so many people hate pigeons or are terrified of them, although others love them and are even obsessed with them?

The indisputable fact is that urban residents are forced to co-exist with pigeons. “Perah Istar’ chronicles this interesting cohabitation.

Our Language (2011)

In Eastern Peloponnese, in a remote region in the shadow of Mt Parnon, live the Tsakonians, a stubborn group of native Greeks.
For 3,000 years now, they have been speaking an ancient dialect, the only surviving representative of the Doric language. They never abandoned it, not even when the Attic-based Koine (from which Modern Greek derives) became the first common dialect of all Greeks and the lingua franca of the entire Mediterranean.

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