This Island Life: Tending The Goats

This Island Life, examines aspects of life on the Aegean Sea island of Ikaria.

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Irene Gevezes was born and raised in Adelaide, Australia, where she lived for the first 25 years of her life. Born to Greek migrant parents, and one of eight children, she married Ilia Gevezes on the island of Ikaria in 1975.

Irene has rooms for rent in the village of Kampos, Ikaria. These rooms are perfect for short term rentals of a week or so. Rooms either have two beds or three, cupboard and wardrobe space, a table and chairs, and a fan is provided for warmer weather. Each room has its own bathroom and shower facilities. There are no kitchen facilities, but there is a refrigerator that is shared between all guests. An electric jug is available for guest to make their own hot drinks.

Kampos beach is just a short walk away, and there are numerous archaeological sites of interest in Kampos itself, and the surrounding area.

The rooms are just metres away from Zac's Cafe where you can purchase breakfast or delicious home made meals made from local fare at reasonable prices. Zac speaks excellent English (as do numerous people in the village), and he is a generous and genial host.

As you can see in the videos, Irene herself is also a knowledgeable and wonderful host. You can contact Irene to enquire about booking her rooms at the following email address:

irenesrooms@hotmail.com
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Irene's brother Jim Lesses is a singer songwriter, film buff and now, amateur film maker. He made these short films while staying with Irene during May-August, 2008.

Jim has recorded and released two albums of original music, and has his own website at http://www.jimlesses.com from where you can hear his music, read full lyrics to his songs, and learn much more than you ever wanted to know about Jim and his career.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Jim
• Lesses
• Irene
• Gevezes
• Aegean
• Sea
• Kampos
• Ikaria
• milking
• goats
• Greece
• culture
• lifestyle

[jimlesses]

As far as I am aware goats are no different to other living creatures in that if they don't have access to water they die. So, yes, tethered goats get water to drink.

[RadioFlyer93]

Don't the tethered goats get any water to drink?

[ZhinaTayla]

Irene is amazing! The island is so beautiful...

[beamer09]

nice video. thanks for sharing a piece of everyday life in ikaria.